Try Jed as your Linux terminal text editor: 
You may have heard about Emacs and Vim and Nano, the quintessential Linux text editors, but Linux has an abundance of open source text editors, and it’s my goal to spend December giving 31 of them a fair go.
In this article, I look at Jed, a terminal-based editor featuring a handy drop-down menu, which makes it especially easy for users who are new to terminal editors, as well as those who just don’t like remembering keyboard combinations for every function.
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