View source for Idea: a commandline editor that doesn't go fullscreen by default

<pre>
$ edit myfile.txt
some lines here
cool
$ keep going ...
</pre>lmao this just ed 🤣🤣🤣🥲

Ok this is actually a good idea though, possible names: fjord, or fj for short, looks cool and short name ez to type, or jot which is short and descriptive. Ok jot is already a unix command.

Let's give this a go.


(side note: would be nice to have a script to automatically sync all my sourcehut repositories)


I made a c example to get a character, but it doesn't work with C-a for example:<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  int ch = getchar();
  printf("ch is %c", ch);
  return 0;
}
</syntaxhighlight>For python people seem to recommend the readchar library. I got it with poetry but can't seem to import it.

(side note: fish completions for poetry are broken, seem to have nested single quotes without escaping)


Ok so I started on this with python, and spent a while trying to get that library to import with poetry. Now I'm thinking about how that library is probably full of junk I don't really need and how it might be a good idea to cut down on dependencies. Perhaps even use a compile language like c or rust or go to build a binary. I've been meaning to wrap my head around rust, could help with my ambition to build a browser.


Still I might as well build a prototype in python, it'd be way faster...