DOS-like text editors

[Liam Proven]

On 5/13/06, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 May 2006 02:33:06 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For years now, I've been looking for a command-line, text console-mode
> > text editor for Linux that looked and worked something like MS-DOS
> > Edit or any other CUA program.
> >
> > But doing some digging and Googling and hunting around, I've found two
> > pretty decent CUA menu-driven editors: ww and setedit.
>
> >
> > However, SETEdit seems like the business. It's perhaps a tiny bit
> > overcomplicated, but it does pretty much everything you could ask,
> > from multifile editing and syntax highlighting and so on to a simple,
> > easy-to-use menu-driven interface.
>
>
>   I know that feeling - what I found and settled on (it's in the Ubuntu repositories)
>   is FTE, runs from X, a console or a shell. Syntax highlighting, drop-down menues CUA compatible
>   everything I want or need.

I tried to run FTE, installing it with

sudo apt-get fte

...which appeared to go through normally. However, the program does
not run, complaining that no FTP binary could be found. I googled for
the error message; nothing. Perhaps even the console-mode version
requires X.11?

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