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Welp, this is big enough to make Nano my default editor. While it'll take a while to become "ubiquitous" (as in version 8.0+) it's trivial enough to build for any systems I manage.

The new mousewheel behavior is particularly nice. It's totally up to my taste with --modernbindings and --mouse.

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Now if they add an edit.com-style menu at the top I’ll really never need another CLI text editor.

is there a "unix/Linux" cli text editor that replicates or approximates EDIT? I have used micro a lot, but it's a spiritual cousin of nano/pico of course. Curious what others who like editors that are nothing like Vim use. (besides emacs, which as someone who doesn't know lisp, is probably wasted on me)

Tilde. It's splendid.

https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde

mcedit is the closest one in general look and feel. It's installed together with Midnight Commander. Of course it can be used as an independent editor.

EDIT:Sibling post proved me wrong, Tilde also exists. How interesting.

I wouldn't complain for sure. I always loved edit.com and have such fond memories of it.

I used mcedit as terminal text editor for a while, but it was never installed anywhere but at home, so ended up defaulting to vi and nano for consistency. If nano became a bit more like edit.com that'd mean it'd be almost everywhere by default once versions catch up...one can dream.

(edit.com as in the old msdos editor, not as in some new web thing)

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