I am a big fan of this terminal text editor. I don’t use one often enough to learn vi. I don’t use it because it is built in rust, but because I like what it does. I can install by the script, but other distros do have the package in the repos.
https://micro-editor.github.io/
Thanks.
I put it in the issue tracker.
You should try lite-xl.
I agree.
Personally, I installed it using
curl https://getmic.ro | bash
And then moving the binary to /usr/bin/
I don’t think this is such a big issue, but I guess that’s odd
I tried lite-xl and I wouldn’t call it simple. I can’t hit Ctl-S to save, unless I go edit a .lua file. I like micro, because it is so simple to use without thinking.
It’s O.K. I can always just update it with the script that installs it.
Yes, I installed it that way too. My old distro had it in the repos, but I can live without that.
better under /usr/local/bin ← Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 
(it’s included in the $PATH already)
Sometimes I miss the BSDs 
I just confirmed I can do this. I’m not sure what the reason would be for it not working. Was the window in focus when you did it?
Yes, if I remember correctly. I would have to uninstall micro to install lite-xl again to try it. It’s O.K. though, I can manually install micro and update it manually. I’ve been using it for quite a while and I’m attached to it. 
Are there any differences between micro and nano? I have been using nano for a few years just because it shipped with many of the distros I have used.
Good question Lee. I don’t see any similarity between the two. They are totally different. Micro has simple shortcut keys, such as Ctl-S to save and Ctl-Q to quit. It will allow you to set it up with Vi mode, but I run it with the default settings.
Sounds close enough to nano. Ctrl+O to save, Ctrl+X to exit. I also like how nano gives a cheat sheet for keybinds at the bottom of the terminal.
Edit: I have had people recommend vi, vim, and neovim. I tried vim for a short period, but found I would have to spend far too much time in the documentation to do even simple tasks. I’m sure it is great if you spend most of your time in a terminal text editor, but it was too confusing for me.
depends on your usage, if you just need a simple editor for some simple editing in config files etc, nano does the job just fine, but if you want to use the editor to actually write stuff micro is more sophisticated, has better syntax highlighting, lots of plugins and other features.
Btw, re keybinds since version 8.0 nano (8.3 in OMLx ROME) also supports those “modern” keybinds, you can use them if you start nano (or create an alias for it) with nano -/
man nano
P.S. Also, nano is “true” GNU. 
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