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The main thing I want from a terminal text editor is to have the same keyboard short cuts as any other program I use, which is why I use micro. In the screenshot I see Ctrl+W to save as. Why not use Ctrl+Shift+S like any other program? Why not use Ctrl+W to close tabs, again, like any other program? I can already see myself closing tabs in other programs trying to save as, if I start using this.


There are limitations to which keyboard shortcuts are available to an application running in a terminal. And those limitations often vary per terminal.

In other word: It ain't that easy.


“… any other program?” ^W has been erase-word in Unix terminals since the ‘new’ tty driver 40 years ago.




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