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soupbowl on May 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor

When I am getting friends into the terminal or I don't feel like copying my vim configs to a server I use micro now: https://micro-editor.github.io/

It uses ctrl+s ctrl+c type shortcuts and has mouse support, it really is slick.

didibus on May 28, 2017 | [–]

This looks pretty great, I'll try it out thanks.

type0 on May 29, 2017 | [–]

It is slick but it desperately needs multi cursor support and sadly there has been no progress on that - https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/5

digi_owl on May 29, 2017 | [–]

https://github.com/hishamhm/dit

Hisham's (of htop and gobolinux fame) dit editor seems to have gained such support 4 months ago.

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