Recently I wanted to try newly vibecoded .txt editor. Newly I mean, is that I want to find an app to replace nano, so something that was written after 2010. So I installed, opened it, and this was help screen (F1 key).
Notice the problem?
This is my keyboard
I bet, >80% of users who is not mobile now has kind of same keyboard. It’s a laptop keyboard. It’s missing Home, PageUp, PageDown, NumLock. Yet terminal people still consider everyone lives with fullblown keyboard, Logitech mouse and a pair of Genius speakers. C’mon. And this is the problem with TUI I have in general. No matter how people try, 80’s are calling back.
When you’re building TUI, imagine not him:
Imagine him:
Back to nano. Unfortunately keybindings in TUI are broken beyond repair.