nano-win VS dte

Compare nano-win vs dte and see what are their differences.

nano-win

GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING] (by lhmouse)

dte

A small, configurable console text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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nano-win dte
1 2
206 147
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5.8 9.7
3 months ago 4 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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nano-win

Posts with mentions or reviews of nano-win. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.
  • For those who use Core installs, what are your pain points?
    4 projects | /r/WindowsServer | 15 Mar 2022
    Hi malxau. I am fully aware of your tools. Actually I am using yori in both my personal and work laptops. However, I am a fan of PowerShell, while my colleagues are not. I tried to use nano for Windows as a CLI text editor, yet I got used to micro. But I agree. It has been more than 5 years since the initial Core version was released and still the tooling is poor. An admin cannot just ssh into a windows server and do the work when it is required. Yes, RSAT is great. But for a Linux shop who has limited use of Windows, things get hard. And Windows Admin Center is not that good yet.

dte

Posts with mentions or reviews of dte. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-17.
  • Micro – A Modern Alternative to Nano
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2023
    From sailplane straight to (at least) a Cessna looks more like another level, supercharge and weight class all in one. I guess it's fair to locate 'micro' rather somewhere in the in-between, a middle ground and then there are in fact not that many contenders on the CLI, or else they're fossils. I would've thought this is what makes it attractive to some? Whereas others don't really have a use case. As for 'nano' on the other hand frankly there are about as many proper and more modern alternatives as there are Linux distributions and I'm sure anyone who's still a console regular has their favorite or two. I'm a vimmer but for quick snaps or in very strange places I *really* like dte. Am not associated with the project: https://github.com/craigbarnes/dte
  • dte - a language for expressing and calculating date and time
    1 project | /r/commandline | 15 Oct 2021
    Ohohoho. DTE is also the name of a nano like text editor I used before learning vim, felt nostalgic seeing the name.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nano-win and dte you can also consider the following projects:

micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Newtrodit - A console text editor written in C.

vis - A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions

mandown - man-page inspired Markdown viewer

yori - Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.

texterm - A very minimal & simple text editor written in C with only Standard C Library.

termbox2 - suckless terminal rendering library

netmon_cli - A simple and lightweight terminal packet sniffer.

bim - Extensible, lightweight terminal text editor with syntax highlighting and plugin support.

monomux - Monophone Terminal Multiplexer - Less intrusive than tmux, smarter than screen

TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library

Selene - Automation tool based on MQTT data. Optionnal backends to create "DRM/Cairo" "DirectFB" or "Curses" graphical applications.