TUI text editors

Rosetta

Other overviews:

Missing editors:

  • SETEDIT
  • e3
    • supports wordstar like keybindings when started as e3ws or e3 (default)
    • supports nedit (~cua) like keybindings when started as e3ne
    • supports vi like keybindings when started as e3vi
    • supports pico like keybindings when started as e3pi
    • supports emacs like keybindings when started as e3em
Diakonos wp Emacs wp JED wp JOE wp LE wp mcedit wp MinEd wp nano wp ne wp vim wp Yi wp
latest stable version
(up to 2010-08)
0.8.12 (2009-08) 23.2 (2010-05) 0.99-19 (2009-12) 3.7 (2008-11) 1.14.5 (2010-11) 4.7.0.7 (2010-07) 2000.16 (2010-02) 2.2.6 (2010-11) 2.1 (2010-04) 7.3 (2010-08) 0.6.2.4
(2010-07)
Arch Linux package aur extra extra extra aur extra aur core aur vi: core
vim: extra
aur
basic usage reference wiki manpage manual
open file ctrl+o ctrl+x ctrl+f ctrl+x ctrl+f (?) ctrl+k e ctrl+r ctrl+o :e ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
save file ctrl+s ctrl+x ctrl+s ctrl+x ctrl+s ctrl+k d ctrl+o ctrl+s :w ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
quit ctrl+q ctrl+x ctrl+c ctrl+x ctrl+c ctrl+k x ctrl+x ctrl+q :q ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
undo ctrl+z ctrl+x u ctrl+x u ctrl+_ F5 u ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
redo ctrl+y ctrl+^ F6 ctrl+r ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
search forward ctrl+f ctrl+s ctrl+s ctrl+k f ctrl+w / ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
search backward ctrl+r ctrl+r ctrl+k f … b ? ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
search & replace ctrl+r Esc % ctrl+k f … r … ctrl+w ctrl+r s// ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
selecting ctrl+space ctrl+space ctrl+k b ctrl+b v ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
cut ctrl+x ctrl+k d ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
copy (yank) ctrl+c y ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua
paste ctrl+v ctrl+u p ~vim / ~emacs / ~cua

If you want vim with more standard GUI keybindings, use the Cream configuration for vim.

"cua" staat voor de IBM "Common User Access" standaard, waarschijnlijk de meest gevolgde standaard voor keybindings en gui, al zullen vele developers het niet bij naam kennen.

Emacs References

vi(m)

See vi

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