Hi Debian Mentors, I am a long-time user of *nano *- in fact it replaced my use of *pico *- but in 2011 after I made a request to the nano people and that was categorically denied, I decided to make an editor for linux using ncurses that was a little more modern and similar to editors found on desktop PCs like Windows and Mac. That's how *fed *(fedit) started.
It has the feel of nano combined with feel of, say, Notepad++ or KomodoEdit. Anyway, I was within 3 or 4 features of what I would call a version 1.0, when I hit a roadblock trying to get it into a distro and decided to give up for a while. Looking back at all of the features I packed into it, I know it deserves a home among the other terminal editors like emacs, vi, nano et al. It's really _different_ than those editors, and should be able to stand on its own. The problem is, not many people know about it or have it as a part of their linux experience. I've been using Debian since 1991 and I really would love it to be a part of the apt-get package downloading system, officially supported! I have some time to devote to this, but not a ton, but I want to persevere so I can apt-get nano and also apt-get fed I'm willing to change to license it however it must be, I just really want people to experience some of the awesome features of fed *fed *incorporates some of the greatest features of an ncurses editor, but also in a familiar way regarding keystroes, and it has a 'perfect amount of features' rather than an absolute ton as its core offering. It can be extended through short scripts using a plugin interface, in virtually any scripting language, but especially PHP, python, perl, shell scripts (so anything really). A video (which covers pretty much EVERYTHING AWESOME about fed and its prepackaged PHP plugins) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsc_NzxK67k And the source is here, if anyone wants to try it out on their box: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fed I'd love to find a sponsor and have *fed* just an apt-get away on any Debian distro (Ubuntu etc) .. at least, that's what i'm trying to accomplish. TIA -h3rb
