When comparing mcedit (Midnight Commander) vs qemacs (for quick emacs), the Slant community recommends mcedit (Midnight Commander) for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal text editors?” mcedit (Midnight Commander) is ranked 6th while qemacs (for quick emacs) is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose mcedit (Midnight Commander) is:
I hate opening a text editor confident that I have the information I need to type in safely in my grey matter's working stack, only to abruptly realize I don't even remember why I opened the editor to begin with. Ctrl+O is my best friend, upgrades to savior if you're tired/inebriated..
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Pros
Pro Ctrl+O hides the window so you can reference the terminal history from before you invoked it
I hate opening a text editor confident that I have the information I need to type in safely in my grey matter's working stack, only to abruptly realize I don't even remember why I opened the editor to begin with. Ctrl+O is my best friend, upgrades to savior if you're tired/inebriated..
Pro Part of the Midnight Commander installation
Pro Input methods for most (human) languages
Including e.g. Chinese.
Pro Terminal and graphics mode
Supports the terminal mode with 'qemacs -nw' and a graphics mode.
Pro Good documentation and help
- Context sensitive shortcut help on F1.
- Good online documentation.
Pro Comfortable file browser
Easy to open and manage files (dired-mode).
Pro Supports many editing modes besides text
- Hex
- HTML / CSS
- Image
- Audio/video (maybe not the most sought after mode in a text editor, but, well, it's there)
Pro Full UTF-8 support
Including bi-directional writing.
Pro Super lightweight and fast
Pro Emacs like key-bindings
Use your muscle memory if you know Emacs already.