alt Hacker NewsThere's no shortage of less technical people using nano for editing on Linux servers. Something even more approachable than that would have a user base.
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hulitu • yesterday at 5:20 AM
Midnight commander comes with mcedit.
There's no shortage of less technical people using nano for editing on Linux servers. Something even more approachable than that would have a user base.
Midnight commander comes with mcedit.
Especially noting it's a single binary that's just 222kb on x86_64— that's an excellent candidate to become an "installed by default" thing on base systems. Vim and emacs are both far too large for that, and even vim-tiny is 1.3MB, while being considerably more hostile to a non-technical user than even vim is.
I can definitely see msedit having a useful place.