[Discuss] text mode visual editor

Sat Apr 26 17:34:45 PDT 2014

On Saturday April 26 2014 05:29:40 PM Bernie C. Till wrote:
> Hi All --
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good visual editor that works in console (tty) mode?  I
> would like to have a split screen, with two files open, with the ability to
> copy text from one file into the other file.
> 
> I'm told that emacs might have this capability, but I'm hoping for something
> with a shallower learning curve...
> 
> Regards,
> -- Bernie.

That would be the ncurses mc, otherwise known as "Midnight Commander". On 
Debian, the package is simply: "mc".
Chris W.
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