micro enters the chat. Static, portable binary with no dependencies. Out of the box: Syntax highlighting Multi-line cursors like Sublime Text Mouse support Splits and tabs Diff gutter Copy and paste with system clipboard Cross-platform Sane key binds (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-x, etc) Plugin system And much much more I have nothing to do with the project but this binary is the absolute best. curl or wget to any host and away you go with effectively a Sublime Text / VSCode like in the terminal. It’s baffling it’s not more well known and not installed by default on major distros.

I use nano because I can’t be assed to memorize key bindings, but I’ll give this a go