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> Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS).

You might like "joe", which was inspired by WordStar: <https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/>



Also Midnight Commander's integrated editor: `mc -e`.


it's mcedit


Yes, that works too.


I'm still using joe on Linux (and macOS) 30 years later!




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