Hi, which is the best program for writing in terminal. I need 32-bit program and also it should use as little as possible system resources. I need such program for computers in my school. They are really old and that is why i need light program for Linux terminal writing.

If I understand you correctly you want a light, command-line only Linux distribution for old 32bit machines in your school? Are these machines PC architecture? How much RAM/CPU/HDD do they have, or how old are they, roughly?

In most cases I guess a so-called netinst of Debian Stable should do nicely.

This is the best terminal-based text editor I can recommend:

https://micro-editor.github.io/

If you stick with a command line install, it won't use much resources.

This may be all you need - https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/minimal-live/
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chim...nimal-live.txt

If talking about a writing program for the console, most editors should suffice, but you can get a word processor for use in the console. http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/index.html

there is no best. There are a lot of lightweight text editor out there. First of all you can use vi everywhere, it is available and designed exactly to run everywhere (including low-end hosts).
But there are a lot of others: emacs, nano, editor of mc, ne just to name a few.
And still you can find a lot of info on the net: https://lateweb.info/10-best-lite-co...uxeasy-to-use/

I used to be a 'vi' guy for years, but have moved over to 'nano' for console work. I find it a bit easier to use. Matter of taste I suppose. Nano is usually included in a distro like vi is.

I prefer vim, but there's a learning curve; it was written long before a number of conventions (like CTRL-C and CTRL-X, to name two) became conventions. It was written for use over telephone line connections to remote Unix mainframes, so its author made it as light-weight he could. (In fact, I remember one of my co-workers using just such a connection in the mid-1970s long before I ever touched a computer keyboard; he would place his phone handset in a special crade and dial in. He was an economist, so I have no idea what software he was using).

If you don't want or don't have time to deal with the learning curve, I'd recommend nano.

If you want a real word processor, forget terminal based, even a 32-bit system with 512MB and 1024x768 can run Abiword under something like Debian with LXDE.

But if what you really want is a simple text editor, then use nano as default like already suggested; people familiar with vi/vim/emacs will use that themselves anyway without you making it default or putting it on a menu or whatever you intend to do with it. So at least make sure all three are installed.