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I'm searching for a console code editor with CUA key bindings (ctrl+x, c, v etc.)
Right now i'm toying mcedit but i don't really like it. My desired features are:
* be fast
* CUA key bindings (ctrl+x, c, v etc.)
* toggle show line numbers
* find/replace/goto line
* bind custom keys to action( ctrl-shift-arrowdown to double the curent line etc.)
* nice simple vi-like interface (no pointless menus)
* be able to programatically extend it ...
etc.

jezrael
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  • I do believe that ctrl+x, c, and v are NOT part of the CUA standard, but are Microsoft's bastardisation of the standard. The proper CUA key strokes for these operations are Shift+Delete, Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert, as also shown on the linked-to CUA page. – HeartWare Sep 27 '16 at 11:16

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There are a number, but most are strangely obscure & little-known. This surprises me -- I'd have thought a lot of people would have wanted this!

I have tried quite a few. These are the only 2 that I know of that are current.

Tilde is alive, maintained and has recent packages available. http://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/

There is also eFTE, enhanced FTE, which works well in my experience. http://sourceforge.net/projects/efte/

Liam Proven
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    +1 for tilde. Colour-scheme is a bit old-school, but can be tweaked for a more eye-pleasing experience. Really solid editor, even with mouse support. – carlfriedrich Feb 23 '21 at 17:53
  • Glad to hear someone else likes it as much as I do! The colours are DOS-period-authentic and work for me. I am delighted to see it is finding its way into distro repositories. I first found it in openSUSE but more recently I can install it on Ubuntu as well without adding or changing any config. – Liam Proven Feb 25 '21 at 10:25
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You could use emacs with CUA-mode. You probably have to configure it further to form it to your liking. There are lots of extensions for key-bindings and it has a pretty powerful extension mechanism. If you get over the initial surprise that its all in lisp you might actually like it.

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Try micro editor. See https://micro-editor.github.io/ .

Ctrl-C/V/X/Z/Y/F/S/Q are supported. Shift+Arrows for selection is supported. Syntax highlighting is present.

Another CUA editor, with menu and dialogs, is Turbo, which is written with TurboVision 2.0+Unicode: https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

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  • I have looked at it, but as far as I can see, it does not have a menu bar or standard dialogues. For me, this renders it largely irrelevant: I do not like to use a UI where I have to memorise commands, because they are not displayed in the standard way. (For comparison this also rules out the Ribbon-based versions of MS Office for me.) – Liam Proven Jan 13 '21 at 15:33
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    @LiamProven Try turbo then: https://github.com/magiblot/turbo – Volodymyr M. Lisivka Jan 14 '21 at 16:17
  • thanks. I am aware of that one, but I have not tried it yet. It does look very promising to me. – Liam Proven Jan 15 '21 at 23:50