Ubuntu – Alternative to basic text editors in ubuntu wsl

Most utilities, including git respect an environment variable named EDITOR which you can set to any editor you want, including options. export EDITOR='emacs -nw' will have them run emacs in non windowed mode.

In the case of emacs, it has a handy server mode you can start with M-x server-start and then run emacsclient as an editor to open a file in the already running emacs instance. This is handy since it allows you to retain access to the emacs kill ring and other features. It also accepts the -nw switch so that it will open a new emacs frame in the terminal window rather than in the gui emacs frame, so it will still look and feel like a text mode emacs session, but still share the kill ring and buffers with the other window(s).

If your are trying to paste multiple line from clipboard to Vim I found a working solution in this post.

https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49933556/edit

I believe that this question deserves a more objective answer.

Entering Paste Mode

• ESC
• :set paste
• press i
• SHIFT + Insert (with a text copied on your clipboard)

Leaving Paste Mode

• ESC
• :set nopaste
• press i

You pasted the text and you're able to type again.