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I've tried Helix for 3-weeks. The micro for half a week. I'm back to joe, nano, geanny, vscode, It's 2023. Our keyboards are standardized (looking at you, Chromebooks) with control, alt, altgr, meta keys. I can't understand why micro is the only console/cli editor that (partially) supports 1987's CUA standard[1]. All I want is TUI text editor or IDE that let me use Shift-Arrows to select text, Home/End keys should do what their names say, but if you hold Ctrl, they go to the beginning and end of file. I'd like to use use Ctrl-Ins/Ctrl-Del/Shift-Ins/ to access the Clipboard. Can we also have some menu or palette system, perhaps context-sensitive that includes every mapped shortcut? How about an easy system to create some windows or panes that can. E easily moved and resized? Wouldn't it be terrific if I pressed momentarily say, control-alt, and a calculator, calendar or a terminal showed up? MS-DOS edit.com, Borland SideKick and Turbo IDEs had all these em 1991. I'm very fond of Midnight Commander editor, micro, joe, nano exactly because they have this DOS atmosphere, where the learning curve looked more gentle. Linux and other unices got into a very interesting scenario. If the application is intended to run over a graphical desktop environment, it'll likely follow the CUA specs. OTOH, console/cli tools decided they don't care about CUA or current UI/UX practices (notable exception is micro), they will keep using standards created 40+ years ago, ignoring the standardization we've adopted since PC GUI massification around 1990. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access |