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I wish there was a CLI editor with a zellij-like UI. I'm a nano guy, but I think the menu bar could be made much richer.

Discoverability is #1 on my list of any new app. I don't want to spend weeks learning commands or referring to the manual to use functionality that I know is there. Over time, recurring patterns I'll memorize the shortcuts for. The rarer stuff I can go through the menu, explore my options and get tentative result using my own data.

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Helix(https://helix-editor.com/) and Kakoune(https://kakoune.org/) both have a keybindings that are discoverable through their UI. Helix has this small pop up that shows you the keys that you can chord and what command they perform. And kakoune has a Clippy like thing.

You could also use a thing like a neovim distribution that has which-key support.

I'd only recommend Helix (or kakoune) to someone willing to spend time learning keybindings. -- I do put helix in the same bucket as zellij as "exciting upcoming tools which are nice out of the box".

which-key (from emacs) is excellent, and I wish more programs adopted the idiom. I'd say in Helix's case, it's good for helping discover the long tail of features you don't use often. It'd be a struggle to use without learning some set of navigation/editing.

Without having used it, micro https://github.com/zyedidia/micro seems like it's a nano alternative to take a look at, too.

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