Is there a text editor for the command line that uses the same keys as Notepad on Windows?

Solution 1:

Try Minimum Profit (mped). It's listed in Synaptic

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I just checked, and latest Synaptic version does not seem to accept command line option -tx - which is switch for text mode, and it's launched as GTK by default.
In text terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]) it's launched in text mode, but in Gnome terminal there doesn't seem to be switch for text mode

If this is true than you can download older version (hardy) or build latest version with ncursesw