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486 points ethanpil | 5 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 3.922s | source
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pxc ◴[25 Jun 25 01:20 UTC] No.44372814[source]▶
I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not.

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1: https://micro-editor.github.io/

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seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 02:49 UTC] No.44373245[source]▶
IMO it should not.

`edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).

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Litruv ◴[25 Jun 25 03:07 UTC] No.44373324[source]▶
I think you missed the point of edit.
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1. seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 16:54 UTC] No.44379436[source]▶
I think you missed the question I was answering in my comment.
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2. JdeBP ◴[25 Jun 25 20:49 UTC] No.44381677[source]▶
There's an underlying assumption about "target audience for this editor" that you both share, that others, I suspect quite a few others, do not.

For starters, there's your assumption that there is "syntax" to be highlighted. Not every text file is something written in a computer programming language.

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4. seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 21:49 UTC] No.44382116[source]▶
You're right, I do assume most (90+%? of) people that are looking for a terminal editor are likely developers.

In fact I'd put money on it, but sadly do not have any evidence to back it up.

If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be intrigued!

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5. pxc ◴[26 Jun 25 14:37 UTC] No.44387872{3}[source]▶
You might not be wrong about percentages, but there are famously some Emacs users who for into it for Org mode or academic writing, including even some who learned to program long to better customize their Emacs setup and eventually became contributors.

But these are amateur geeks or geeks in the making who probably don't mind having the capability of syntax highlighting built in, even if for some purposes they want it turned off.