Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
Nano because like why would I bother with anything else? It’s just a quick and dirty text editor.
Team Vim. Because I learned the vim basics once 20 years ago and never bothered to learn after that. :D
I see you and raise straight vi.
That’s what I was taught at my first tech internship. It’s all they had on the UNIX system running the webserver in 1998.
I did write some web pages the pulled live data from the backend. I had the pleasure of writing them in C. I got the data binding to some kind of CORBA system using extern variables that were bound at compile time. All of the html (no js or css yet) was hand built and generated from the C code.
vi was the only editor on the system and there was no way to use arrow keys (the UNIX system didn’t have them on the keyboard at all).
I also had the displeasure of building a backup system on a floppy where I had to write a bat script that could manually load a token ring driver, bind a SMB share, load Ghost backup software and backup the local hard drive at under 2mb (yay coax thicknet). The tool used to query and write through the hostname for the backup? Copycon. Fucking copycon in DOS. That showed me how a terrible (but working) tool could be to work with.
Unless an editor can do reasonable vim emulation, I can’t take it seriously. You’re welcome to use it, but I won’t be able to get anything done in it quickly. The vi keys are too ground into my reflexes.
NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.
neovim through nvf on NixOS. I’m not even a power user, I just had a shit mouse in college and didn’t want to use it and now I’m hundreds of lines of Lua too deep to go back. This is my life now.
Mostly Neovim and Nano. Tried out ed in the UNIX4 tape that got recovered, was strange but fun to see where sed, grep and other commands got their name from.
GUI is still good old Sublime Text, but I almost completely switched to terminal based editors, I guess because of the nice work flow.
Emacs
Nano, because it’s the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.
Either you forgot your sarcasm tag or you shouldn’t be using computers 🤣.
I use Helix… Uhhh idk I think it’s nice I guess
Helix for modal, Fresh for non-modal.
nano. I can’t memorize esoterica.
That’s who micro exist. And is so much better.
nano still wins. All the shortcuts are listed at the bottom.
Micro doesn’t need to list the shortcuts because it uses similar shortcuts to notepad and you don’t have to do weird ctrl+x to exist but ctrl+q (for quit). Also copy and pasting isn’t a nightmare in it.
Copy and paste in nano work just fine - no clue what you’re talking about. It uses standards established in the '80s - Ctrl-X for eXit being an even older standard - and clearly lists them visibly for a quick reminder.
Yeah cutting text with ctrl+k instead of ctrl+x (because that’s exit) and copying with alt +6 instead of ctrl+c.
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In emacs ctrl+y is paste, which is weird to me because i’m pretty sure even in emacs the logic is that y stands for yank, but in every other program i’ve used so far yank means copy, not paste. In the end though i feel like muscle memory from other editors don’t bother me as much, and i can learn multiple at the same time. I started with evil mode for vim bindings for a short while, but now i’m diving into pure emacs bindings.
Yeah, that’s what the shortcut hint shows, champ.
Why doesn’t my Lemmy comment box show shortcut hints? How will I know the shortcut for copy, cut and paste? I tried pressing alt+6 but it did nothing. Curse you Ecmascript from 1997!
nano, vi, geany, kate…
I prefer nano - simple to use & always available. I manage remote systems often from my mobile using termius: config file editing, writing simple scripts for some analysis/automation tasks and recording task notes and status. Using a tablet I might use vi but generally prefer nano.
Nano. It’s the easiest to use
When I first started using Linux I used Kate, I know, I know, not command line, but I didn’t needed a command line editor for my own computer. Eventually I started using nano for quick edits and that became my default CLI editor for a while. I don’t remember what I used as an IDE back then, but maybe it was Eclipse, although I think it was mostly just Kate.
Eventually I decided to learn either VI or Emacs, and a friend who used Emacs pushed me to that side. I ended up switching everything to emacs, CLI, IDE, I even learnt org-mode and had tables and presentations in it.
Eventually my pinky started to hurt too much, so I switched to Pycharm for python, and kept emacs for C++, text edits and org-mode. I ended up slowly switching emacs everywhere and reverted to nano.
Some years back I decided to properly learn vim. I have been using nvim for a few years, and while it’s not the everything tool that emacs was for me, it’s still pretty darn useful. I also haven’t become a movement ninja and oftentimes I go
wwwwwwto get where I want to be. But still, there are some very nice shortcuts that I use a lot like Change Inside/Around or Delete X lines. Macros are cool, and sometimes feel magical, but other times they don’t work like I expected and I can’t figure out why. I don’t see myself changing to something else, the ubiquity of vim shortcuts in other programs makes it very convenient when I have to use something else.Kate 👀
Nano. It’s easy and I’ve never had a reason to change.
Was staunchly team vim for 15 years, but now I’m on helix. As another user stated below, its like if vim were re-designed today, and without needing any addons to be a code-aware editor.
