Subtitle: The sad state of Backspace and Delete key in linux(cit.)For a newbie, what is the scariest part in a linux system? A lot of people hate linux 'cause "in a forum they made me open a DOS prompt to solve...".
The console is a powerful tool, but a lot of people doesn't like it.
Personally I prefer a lot of console applications, for the lighteness and the power of simple commands; sometimes is useful a quick edit in the console window of a configuration file, so I searched for a text editor that didn't change my
mental keybinding. You know what I mean.
ctrl+c is for copy,
ctrl+v is for paste,
ctrl+x is for cut,
ctrl+s is for saving,
ctrl+q is for quit,
ctrl+f is for search and
ctrl+r is for replace.
In my experience, they are the same in
EditPlus,
UltraEdit,
Notepad++,
eclipse,
kwrite,
gedit: graphical text editor.
So after using
vi,
emacs -nw and
nano for those dirty jobs I found
ne.
It's the text editor that I'm searching for, just a console tool with the
gui guys keybindings.
But...
The only thing that didn't work is the backspace key in urxvt. It's a well known problem in linux terminal,
explained here (
from the author of ne, Sebastiano Vigna).
The quick fix is the
export TERM=gnome way, but I didn't like it, 'cause in some application it may cause mistake.
So I written a trivial fix for this:
~/bin/ne.sh
#!/bin/sh
export TERM=gnome
/usr/bin/ne $1
export TERM=rxvt
and added to my .zshrc
alias='ne=~/bin/ne.sh'
Fix'd! :)
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