Re:Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
by rahen on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:11AM
(#30852266)
Last time I tried micro as an alternative to vi, it didn't even implement search and replace. I find most of those alternatives quiet heavy and featureless compared to vi.
Re:Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
by PBondurant on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:52AM
(#30853521)
fwiw the current Micro (2.0.10) certainly has these...<Ctrl-f> for search, 'replace' [search] [value] [flags]' and 'replaceall [search] [value]'.
Re:Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
by Semaphor on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:22AM
(#30853673)
An issue with micro is, that you can’t use the mouse to select, copy, and paste text when SSHing in from a Windows host (easily). I never bothered to read up on why this is an issue for Micro but not Nano, but something is done different.
Another editor worth mentioning here is Micro (https://micro-editor.github.io/), written in Go, which is also a TUI editor, is hackable not only because open source but also in the sense you mentioned (with plugins written in Lua), and (exceptionally for a TUI editor) it has the "usual" default keybindings that all of us non-Vim and non-Emacs diehards are accustomed to (Ctrl+S for save, Ctrl+F for find etc. etc.).