Can you recommend some suckless, minimal editor? I’m programming and also I need to edit HTML/CSS files sometimes. When I mean suckless minimal editors and I don’t mean whole operating system like Emacs or big security hole like vim and it’s clones/forks.
Hard to tell what you want but maybe /bin/ed . I use zile now and then fwiw.
How ed is for programming? It looks interesting. If you’re saying about zile I tried mg and it looks great but I can’t display or type some characters from my native language, I think that it will be same with zile. I think that good idea would be to use mg with ed, for example write most of the code in mg, but fixing needed letters in ed.
I don’t know the unicode situation with ed. It is pretty minimal. There is also GNU Nano which I’ve never learned how to use. Ed is a line based editor, not screen oriented. I’ve programmed with it (back in the day) but these days I use Emacs for everything except minimal tweaks.