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Please help me find an editor that behaves more like the modern Windows editors do, that I could use on a NetBSD box through PuTTY.
This includes the absense of the distinction between view/insert/append modes, basic shortcuts such as Ctrl+Left/Right to jump a word at a time, and other niceties such as perhaps Home/End and PageUp/Down moving the cursor around (in my vi
they just ding).
I can live without macros because I only ever tweak an occasional setting this way, and nothing else.
pico
is pretty close, but I was wondering if there are other editors that might fit this bill?
Have you tried easyedit? – Unfundednut – 2010-01-11T18:46:18.110
You can try to use editor created for X11 environment (for example gEdit) with ssh X11 forwarding. – Maciek Sawicki – 2010-01-11T18:52:26.210
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vi
has never supported such "niceties" as cursor keys. Those were added invim
. (When vi was written, terminals didn't have dedicated cursor keys.) – user1686 – 2010-01-11T19:12:04.7201grawity is so true, vi and vim is not the same thing. Even thou you can make vim behave as vi... – Johan – 2010-01-11T21:02:39.050
1Agreed, but to some people (incl myself) it's shocking that programs written in the days before cursor keys still survive almost unchanged AND are even made default editors in modern OS releases. – RomanSt – 2010-01-12T09:57:50.943