GNU nano 8.0 released

Posted May 1, 2024 21:25 UTC (Wed) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)
In reply to: GNU nano 8.0 released by josh
Parent article: GNU nano 8.0 released

> Given nano's role as a user-friendly terminal text editor for new users

For this role the "micro" terminal text editor is even better : https://micro-editor.github.io/

GNU nano 8.0 released

Posted May 2, 2024 11:02 UTC (Thu) by Deleted user 129183 (guest, #129183) [Link]

I think that for that role, this one is probably the best:

https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/

GNU nano 8.0 released

Posted May 5, 2024 0:51 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

For people "hardcoded" to readline and emacs bindings, my favorite "nano" editor is https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/.

Probably more "micro" than "nano" but you get the idea.

GNU nano 8.0 released

Posted May 5, 2024 0:55 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> For people "hardcoded" to readline and emacs bindings,

Forgot to say: you can change the default bindings of course. But the point of a "nano" editor is IMHO that you can just "apt install" it on some random new system that you've never used before and it works out of the box.