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amadeuspageltoday at 5:07 AM1 replyview on HN

You should put standard keyboard bindings as a pitch on the website as well. Most people in the market for a terminal editor are probably looking for something that doesn't require them to learn a set of keyboard shortcuts that's entirely different from every other piece of software that they use.

I searched for that desperately until I discovered micro[1].

Here's a quick comparison between micro and fresh:

- Fresh implements more standard keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl+ArrowLeft and Ctrl+ArrowRight to skip to the next and previous word, Ctrl+Backspace to delete the previous word and Ctrl+Delete to delete the next one.

- Fresh is extensible in typescript, Micro in lua.

- Fresh is able to open the wikidata json dump (1.7T).

- Micro is included in most repos, so if you rent a new VPS you can immidiately dnf install it.

[1]: https://micro-editor.github.io/


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_sinelaw_today at 9:35 AM

Thanks for testing that! I'll bump the keybinding thing too.

Getting included in distributions is a worthy goal... So many things to do