Most BBEdit-like Terminal Editor ??

[Rick Gordon]

What Terminal editor is the most similar in interface to BBEdit (i.e., the easiest TUI editor for a person who is most comfortable with BBEdit), which I might install on a remote machine where it may sometimes require text editing within the Terminal?

[Benjamin Irwin]

Rick,

The linux nano editor and Mac pico editor are basically the same editor for the terminal.  I find them to be the easiest terminal based editors.

Most of the functionality is shown in two rows at the bottom of the screen.  With a "Get Help" for additional information.

Thanks,

Ben

[Peter Kaufman]

I'm dating myself... but I'm surprised the response wasn't an editor packaged into darwin/*nix - ex and vi.

Peter

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[Benjamin Irwin]

pico is packaged with the Mac operating system.  I grew up with vi but moved quickly to pico when it became available.  It has a much easier and natural user interface.

[James Reynolds]

Micro is a modern terminal-based text editor. Uses mouse and all the other normal keyboard shortcuts for save, copy, paste, etc., except it uses the ctrl key instead of cmd. It supports split screen, terminal emulator, syntax coloring, multiple cursors, Lua plugins, etc. It's a single binary to download.

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

James Reynolds
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[Benjamin Irwin]

Cool, you're right.  I played with the micro editor today.  It is really nice and powerful for a terminal editor.  I wish I knew about this and had it back in the 80's and 90's.  That being said, I really like BBEdit.  

[Antoine Beaubien]

For sure it’s micro.

Regards,

   Antoine

Le mar. 27 févr. 2024, à 03 h 49, Rick Gordon <li...@rickgordon.com> a écrit :

What Terminal editor is the most similar in interface to BBEdit (i.e., the easiest TUI editor for a person who is most comfortable with BBEdit), which I might install on a remote machine where it may sometimes require text editing within the Terminal?

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[Rick Gordon]

Thanks all! I think micro looks like the best one I've found. I appreciate your insights.

Rick Gordon

[James Reynolds]

I forgot one, TextAdept also has a terminal version. https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/. IMO micro is much better though.

James Reynolds
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> On Feb 28, 2024, at 14:33, Rick Gordon <li...@rickgordon.com> wrote:
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> Thanks all! I think micro looks like the best one I've found. I appreciate your insights.
> Rick Gordon
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