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:
And the source is here, if anyone wants to try it out on their box:
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