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Twee Editors (2005) (texteditors.org)
30 points by todsacerdoti on June 5, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The article on the original homepage; extra points for the section title "Modest proposals": https://web.archive.org/web/20081019042406/http://www.modest...

What would be some 2022-ish additions to the editors discussed in the article? kilo by Antirez [1] for sure; and it's somewhat surprising that Rob Pike's sam (at least the line editing mode) [2] was not on that list.

Two of the author Terry Loveall's editors are also on github [3] and TextEditors Wiki [4]. Based on the description, ue seems fairly close to kilo.

Interesting stuff. I wonder if ultra-minimal things like these become relevant again alongside The State Of The Current World, systems like Collapse OS etc. It would surely feel great to use a 588-byte editor on a computer with 8+ GB of RAM, though.

1: http://antirez.com/news/108

2: http://sam.cat-v.org/

3: https://github.com/kisom/editors/

4: https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Kiss_Editor


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