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Please help me find an editor that behaves more like the modern Windows editors do, that I could use on a NetBSD box through PuTTY.

This includes the absense of the distinction between view/insert/append modes, basic shortcuts such as Ctrl+Left/Right to jump a word at a time, and other niceties such as perhaps Home/End and PageUp/Down moving the cursor around (in my vi they just ding).

I can live without macros because I only ever tweak an occasional setting this way, and nothing else.

pico is pretty close, but I was wondering if there are other editors that might fit this bill?

RomanSt
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Nano is my editor of choice, as soon as I learned some of the keys (Ctrl+x for close, ctrl+w for find, etc.).

If you have enough bandwidth, X11 forwarding with your editor of choice is a good option. I do this a bit from the windows machine at my work with Xming and PuTTY. Great programs, IMO.

Good luck!

Steiv
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dit. From a review:

I can’t contain my glee. Here are the totally groundbreaking features, never before seen all together in one editor.

  • The ability to page up and down. Revolutionary!
  • Control-left and control-right to hop words. Amazing!
  • Control-s to save, control-q to quit. Incredible!
  • Control-c to copy, control-x to cut, control-v to paste. Astounding!

There’s no sarcasm there at all either. A usable text editor.

(The author goes on in that post to say "In other news, I decided to implement a DOS editor wrapper using DOSBox.", which shows you where he's coming from, and is sort of awesome.)

I tend to use joe, though, because I've found it often pre-installed on otherwise-unfamiliar systems, and you can get it on Cygwin. It's not like edit.com, but its little help panel (^KH) makes up for almost all unfamiliarity.

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Also found diakonos which seems to be a little more finished than dit.

RomanSt
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