Terminal-based text editor with color syntax hilighting

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote previously:
|Are there any others? What about Fte, I wonder... is that editor/IDE still
|being actively maintained? According to their website it supports Python
|color hilighting, but I'm not sure if the s-lang version does. I'll check
|into it.

Unfortunately, AFAIK FTE only works in Unix-like systems over XTerm.  A
console session doesn't do FTE (under Linux, OS/2 has both console and
PM versions of FTE).  As with the OP, this rules out using FTE on most
of my connections--my web host doesn't run an X client, my OS/2, Windows
and MacOSX machines don't run an X server).

IMO, the best option for the rather common scenario of remote SSH
connection is Jed. But I would welcome learning of others.  I *have*
been using vim on one host recently, and have kinda-sorta learned basic
navigation, but it won't stick in my head after a month (I know from
experience).  Likewise with emacs.

Jed has this wonderful feature of having topbar menus that actually let
you visually select the most common actions (without needing to remember
a cryptic key-sequence).  This fabulous design had only been in DOS
text editors since 1982, so it's nice that Linux is starting to catch up
with that.

Yours, Lulu...

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