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486 points ethanpil | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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anyfoo ◴[25 Jun 25 00:27 UTC] No.44372516[source]▶
Fun. I must admit I don't really know who this is for, but it seems fun.
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DrJokepu ◴[25 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44372607[source]▶
It’s right there in the readme actually:

> The goal is to provide an accessible editor that even users largely unfamiliar with terminals can easily use.

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scblock ◴[25 Jun 25 00:49 UTC] No.44372647[source]▶
That may be the written goal, but I doubt that's the actual reason the project exists.
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cosignal ◴[25 Jun 25 00:57 UTC] No.44372682[source]▶
Yeah ... I don't think there's any overlap between "users largely unfamiliar with terminals" who want something easy to use, and 'Linux users who are sufficiently technical that they would even hear about this repo'.
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1. kevin_thibedeau ◴[25 Jun 25 01:34 UTC] No.44372902[source]▶
There's no shortage of less technical people using nano for editing on Linux servers. Something even more approachable than that would have a user base.
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2. mikepurvis ◴[25 Jun 25 04:57 UTC] No.44373743[source]▶
Especially noting it's a single binary that's just 222kb on x86_64— that's an excellent candidate to become an "installed by default" thing on base systems. Vim and emacs are both far too large for that, and even vim-tiny is 1.3MB, while being considerably more hostile to a non-technical user than even vim is.

I can definitely see msedit having a useful place.

3. hulitu ◴[25 Jun 25 05:20 UTC] No.44373857[source]▶
Midnight commander comes with mcedit.