Blink: Add a builtin text-editor

[grayfall]

I am not asking for something on the scale of vi/vim, but even something as simple as nano will be extremely helpful. For example, I've just purchased blink and tried to create and edit a local .ssh/config in blink itself (i.e. without downloading/importing it from somewhere), but I can't figure out any way of doing that.

[grayfall]

Just to clarify, the cat > file workaround is not only inconvenient, but also broken in the App Store version of the app (see https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/756 and https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/769 )

[yury]

We will add ed in blink 13. See demo

[mrmen]

I know ed is an editor but it’s an hardcore one. Anyway to have something more standard ?

[normen]

Please go full hardcode and add VIM ❤️

[psaintemarie]

Any plans on adding something more user friendly? Even vi would work, but nano/pico could be alternatives.

[ck3mp3r]

Nano, pico, vi, anything but ed ;)

[ogermer]

Hi Yury -- ed is at least a starting point, but not the most easy. nano, vim, even emacs would be cool(er). Thx!

[yury]

Yep, we are working on powerful builtin editor

[kkk669]

I think a-Shell's vim support may help you because both Blink Shell and a-Shell are using ios_system.

[kantgreven]

What about something like Micro? Wouldn't that be possible to port to be included with blink?

[carloscabanero]

This is ready for Blink 14 but we cannot give details yet 😊