Sugg. Terminal Text Editor


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I'm looking for a simple and powerful text editor for word processing using the Linux Terminal. I've been using Nano and Pico for years but its most just to edit .conf files. I think Vi and Emacs are overkill for my purposes (and I can never figure them out anyways). I'm looking for a go between of Nano / Pico and Wordperfect. I don't care for spell checking and such.

I'm putting it on my EEE PC. The small screen means that I really need to make efficient use of the screen and reduct the font size. I don't use it much since I installed Windows and it takes up too much screen space as does the default Linux on the EEE. I'm putting Slackware on it.

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Well, I just opened synaptic and looked at a few and installed some (I assume you want console-only apps).

aee might be too simple.

fte-terminal looked interesting.

or maybe joe.

I didn't try any of them for much longer than typing a few characters, and then exiting. Not sure if any of these are powerful enough for you.

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