Comment by p4bl0
1 year ago
I wholeheartedly agreee. Nano is quite awesome, it is battle-tested and already has more features than needed for a basic text editor. Actually, Nano is too often frowned upon as too-basic, but is actually has a few advanced features that basic editors do not have (e.g., keyboard macros). I'd argue that Nano is simple rather than basic :).
I tried discussing it here a few months ago but it did not took off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289773
I love nano and used it as my terminal editor on Linux.
Edit seems super approachable to newbies with it's mouse support in the menus. I love that and would love to see it in nano.
Just put
in your ~/.nanorc and then you can click on all the UI elements, including the actions/functions at the bottom of the screen, which play the roles of the menu in Nano.
:brainexplosionemoji: Thanks!
Try micro