alt Hacker NewsTelling people to use nano would of course have been next to impossible. Much easier to rewrite a DOS-era editor in Rust, naturally.
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micro would have been an even better choice, the UX is impressively close to something like Sublime Text for a TUI, and very comfortable for those not used to modal editors.
does nano support mouse usage? It doesn't seem to work for me (but maybe it just needs to be enabled somewhere)
I guess they thought that inheriting 25 years of C code was more trouble than designing a new editor from scratch. But you'd have to ask the devs why they decided to go down that route
> rewrite
This is not a rewrite. Maybe it’s slightly inspired by the old thing, especially with having GUI-style clickable menus (something not seen often in terminal editors), but it’s much more modern.
The developer actually explained, on Hacker News just over a month ago, some of the engineering choices that ruled out nano.
nano's great but the shortcuts are a bit oddball, from the perspective of a Windows guy.
This way gets coolness points, HN headlines, makes the programmers who wrote it happy, and probably is a contribution to making a couple of autistic people feel included.
Rust + EDITOR.COM is kind of like remaking/remastering an old video game.