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The Tilde Text Editor

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Malcolm Smith's YEdit deserves mention here, also inspired by the old MS-DOS Edit which was used by so many people in yesteryears to edit their autoexec files, read .nfo files and poke into the numerous batch files of the day. MS-DOS Edit no longer runs natively outside of something like a DOSBox, but YEdit is the closest thing I have seen to recreating almost exactingly the old nostalgic experience.

Tilde is of course more for the non-Windows audience while YEdit is only for Windows.

http://www.malsmith.net/edit/

MIT licensed source: https://github.com/malxau/yori/tree/master/edit

I would then mention far2l project that aims to bring Far Manager to -nix systems: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l. It is cross-platform and does have a great built-in editor and viewer

Name collision aside, I really want more of this. I know I might be in the minority, but I do know vim relatively well -- but I somewhat wish I could unlearn it. I use and enjoy so many other basic GUI type programs that I plan to get back into things like this.

Why not Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac)? I use both extensively. I keep folders for projects, and use these to drop notes into the folder. A word processor is overkill and takes too long to load, but I usually manage these projects from Windows Explorer or Finder so I don’t want to drop into CLI to use Vim or use GUI Emacs. Nice to stick to the GUI stuff when in there and leave the terminal for the heavy duty.

More or less, yes. I'm a Linux guy, so I will frequently use default notepad-esque app, e.g. Featherpad / Leafpad / Pluma.

Plasma's text editor, Kate, is extremely nice. It's my go-to for code these days, and I'll go so far as to install it on Windows if I'm forced onto that platform for any length of time.

Isn't the micro text editor the standard in these sort of "command line 'normal' text editor" tools?

It's what I use at least

Yup, I suppose what I'm looking for is something easily extensible with the possibility of bells and whistles like Vim, but that defaults here.

I haven't really done enough homework to determine if I can get this with e.g. Micro or even nano?

Micro is extensible, but obviously doesnt have the ecosystem that vim, emacs or even sublime text has.

I was looking for effectively the same thing as you and still settled on micro though. Let me know if you find something better. Tilde doesn't seem to work across all OS'es so it's a nonstarter.

I love it. I wish more and more nice TUI (like this one) were made these days. It is becoming a lost “art”.

Is this project abandoned? The readme hasn't been updated since Freenode went bust and there's issues piling up.

The user has several projects (12) and hasn’t contributed to any of them in the past 12 months.

https://github.com/gphalkes

See micro as well for a terminal editor with GUI-like bindings.

https://micro-editor.github.io/

It's being actively developed. I wish it replaced Nano, Pico, etc

Love it ! Like Borland Turbo Pascal or Turbo C

yesterday I posted a link to another text editor - Turbo https://github.com/magiblot/turbo which is built using Turbo Vision framework

cool, looks more complete !

Walter Bright had a similar looking zed.exe, at least as part of Zortech C++.

Looks like good old qbasic /editor...

Interestingly, when I start Vim, I see a bunch of tildes, one on every line below the cursor.

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