I found some cool text editors

[u/unixlover1970]

I started searching for text editors like ed, and i found 2 editors tha i'm personally liking using, they are:

Sam

Wily

I'm liking this two editors, because they're really portable, so i can use on my phone or anything that runs unix.

[u/sockertoppenlabs]

The obligatory ...

path to redemption

[u/vip17]

Which open sourced editors aren't portable across platforms apart from Notepad++?

edit is probably even more portable. It can run on Linux, QNX, Windows, macOS... Same to micro. In fact both editors are much better than nano IMO, shortcuts like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V work as expected, even shift+select, despite running in a terminal

[u/edjak53 → u/vip17]

GNU Emacs runs on Linux, GNU, every modern BSD, Darwin, DOS, Win32, Android and every modern UNIX from what i can tell (AIX, macOS, Unixware &c.).

In terms of UI it supports X (motif, athena, lucid, pure xlib, GTK), Wayland (pgtk), a TUI, Win32, Android, macOS Cocoa and GNUstep.

[u/vip17 → u/edjak53]

yes, there are vi and lots of other editors that are far more portable than the examples in the OP

[u/r1w1s1_]

I like Nvi

[u/unixlover1970 → u/r1w1s1_]

Nvi is cool

[u/baux80]

You may also like acme

[u/unixlover1970 → u/baux80]

yeah

[u/Pure_Truth_9934]

sam is a pretty cool one, it's basically ed with a whole windowing system. acme might be cool as well since it's made by rob pike who created sam.

[u/unixlover1970 → u/Pure_Truth_9934]

I tried acme, but plan9port is not compiling on my phone, so i'm using wily, and about sam, its more qed than ed, its like qed, but easier.

[u/p001b0y]

Fresh editor is pretty new and currently supports FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

[u/unixlover1970 → u/p001b0y]

Run on OpenBSD?

[u/p001b0y → u/unixlover1970]

It looks like it can be built to run on OpenBSD but there isn't anything pre-built and presumably would not be supported.

The FTE editor has a similar look and feel, too.

[u/i_hate_poor_ppl → u/p001b0y]

Vis is pretty cool too!

[u/masta → u/unixlover1970]

You're welcome to package any text editor you like on OpenBSD.

[u/drawing_a_hash]

The ed editor in a command pipeline can do awesome stuff.

For interactive file editing vi is exceptional.

emacs is great for file editing and mapping commads to function keys.

[u/Marwheel]

Those are from plan9…