Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 13:08:17 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <100hcgj$2502r$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ndl8hPRkTjK0Xu7uCIXGuAp/5OD9qxeAy6IdsIqGg/he5tF5cK Cancel-Lock: sha1:pEBCSNlmzivg8Bb6781ZNPBVN7U= sha256:il5brzORNl2xbj6E82FX2UEfolv89YAR9O3blZkHLv8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2242 On 2025-05-26 21:40, candycanearter07 wrote: > Farley Flud wrote at 21:04 this Sunday (GMT): >> On Sat, 24 May 2025 21:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote: >> >>> >>> You know what, fair enough for a text editor. And looking at the repository >>> again, it seems like the /devel/ branch is still being updated. >>> On the other hand, it does seems be a compile-only program, the UI appears >>> to be 20 years out of date, it's being developed by only two people, and >>> nVim does pretty much everything I want. >>> >> >> More idiocy. >> >> Cooledit is based on the same code that is present in another wonder >> on the GNU/Linux world, that of the Midnight Commander file manager, >> or more properly, the file editor thereof. > > And mc is a very nice TUI file manager. I personally dislike the built > in text editor of it, as well. It has its uses. I prefer "jstar", but it breaks inside "tmux", some commands collide. .... -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.