Is there a text editor for the command line that uses the same keys as Notepad on Windows?

Question

I'm used to work in Windows environment and are used to the commands in Notepad e.g. CtrlS for save, CtrlC for copy and so on.

On Ubuntu it's handy to work directly in the command line, e.g. as with vi mytextfile.txt.

I would like to use a text editor that I can use in the Terminal but with the same key commands as Notepad on Windows. Is there any text editor with "Notepad commands" for Ubuntu command line?

Solution

Try Minimum Profit (mped). It's listed in Synaptic

I just checked, and latest Synaptic version does not seem to accept command line option -tx - which is switch for text mode, and it's launched as GTK by default.
In text terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]) it's launched in text mode, but in Gnome terminal there doesn't seem to be switch for text mode

If this is true than you can download older version (hardy) or build latest version with ncursesw

Comments

[Marlon]

Don't know of any one terminal editor in Linux that would allow you to use notepad like commands. That said, have you tried using "nano"? The commands are listed at the bottom and it's installed by default on most distributions.

[Lekensteyn]

nano is an example which allows you to use Ctrl+C

[João Pinto]

Terminal applications can override such keybindings in the same way "stty" does.

[geirha]

You are both right, I was way off on this one.

[endolith]

I don't see this in Ubuntu Synaptic