RmDebArc_5Text editor war
Rikudou_SageAs a nano user, I fully agree.
damnthefilibusterSeriously. Nano is the best.
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Seriously... it isn't
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Seriously... it isn't
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agent_floundervi comment
oright there with ya bud.esc :wq!
LovecraftianGodsKillerI HATE that I am still in the habbit of doing esc :wq whenever I want, or need, to save and quit.
đź‘ŤMaximum Derekđź‘ŤWhy did you do that! I deleted my whole file! It was important
I left the G off the beginning as a guardrail.
miss_brainfartxed supremacy
How dare you
I recently worked on a system that had the TERM variable botched and filtered and no nano, just vim. It was all hell. The escape sequences in vim wouldn’t work. I ended up suspendig it with ctrl+z, killing it, then editing the config with fucking ed and sed. That hoster sucks.
Name and shame.
Vim can do much more than nano, but for it to work, quite a few specific stars need to align, and if they don’t you are screwed.
Nano on the other had just works. If it exists in your env.
cetvrti_magiBoth are good but I prefer Vim.
+1 for nano. I just need to change two parameters in a config file, not join a religion.
skyin7Amen!
When the holy war comes, you’ll be among the first sacrifices!
nyahlathotepEhh, that’s fine. I’m not too psyched about living in whatever comes afterward.
Wouldn’t the first be Vimulation users? They are the Pretenders.
Blasphemers!
woelkchenI just need to change two parameters in a config file, not join a religion.
But Nano is a GNU utility what use Ctrl-O for Save.
No wonder I can never remember how to do anything in nano, at least vi’s commands generally make sense
I recently switched to micro that is similar but with more sane key combos.
Now I just mistakenly use nano combos. Back to nano it is lol
Nano is only helpfull because of this nifty little info bar at the bottom… No one can actually remember nano-shortcuts.
Up down left and right?
I guess ctrlx enter y ? But it has a prompt
cyanarchyConsider micro. The shortcuts for editing test are what I expect them to be everywhere else I edit text.
KĂĽhe sind tollNano Shortcuts are shit. Like CTRL+X to save. What the fuck??? Why not use CTRL+S for this?
Ctrl + X is eXit. Ctrl + s is Save with a prompt.
I had to learn vi because it was installed everywhere and nano didn’t exist yet. I always thought the holy war to be very silly, and even though many treat it as such, there are too many who take it seriously.
QueueIf I have to edit in a terminal: micro
If I need to edit something larger, and want a GUI: Kate
Anything else I flirt with and then drop promptly once I can’t find the time to really learn it.
I’m a fkn vi user and I will say that it is not entirely wrong. ^:wq
BaroqueInMindI'm a neovim user and I'm better than you :!q
the_weezMy boy vim will always be king in my heart.
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_cnt0Heathen!
TimeSquirrelI ONLY EDIT TEXT BY TOGGLING OUT ASCII CODES ON A ROW OF SWITCHES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO MY PARALLEL PORT
I know your lying, because if you did, you would write a mix of capital and lower case letter, because one of the switches would control that bit
I COULD ONLY AFFORD SEVEN SWITCHES. BIT 5 HAS A PULLDOWN RESISTOR ON IT.
This guy did it back in the 80s:
Just use notepad++ with wine like any normal person do
Notepadqq is a thing, you know.
It's good. Definitely has its place in my regular workflow. But I wish it had more extensions supporting it. There are things I can make Notepad++ do via extensions that nqq just can't. That's why it's sitting next to Visual Slickedit in my taskbar. I use nqq for anything that needs more than xed (which I mostly just pull up to type quick bullshit for myself to remember for 5 minutes then close it without saving), and when I don't need the crazy power of the much heavier Slickedit.
That’s horrific
Kate is right there.
I’d probably use helix/codium with vim bindings for more complex projects, with vim for Scripting in python/shell/config files
Finally, a helix user 🤝
TBH I haven’t used helix extensively, but I do like that I can just expect things like auto-complete and linting to work, which I would usually expect from something like vscodium, but that’s not cli. So yes, helix is nice. I’m just a bit afraid that I’ll forget my vim bindings because helix does things a little differently:
wd instead of dw
mcedit for life
Mcedit is great. It reminds me of the later versions of edit.com on DOS.
For me it’s like running a bike, I’ve probably been using Norton Commander since I was 10. DOS 3.3, Windows 2 was just a gimmick.
GortThought I was going to be the only one.
I was talking with a sysadmin once who intentionally removed nano and emacs from any system he was granted access to. His explanation was “if they can’t use vim I don’t want them on my machines”
There’s a sysadmin at my place who does exactly that. He’s kind of an idiot too.
Shocked
As a VIM user, I don’t want you using VIM on my system unless you know how to use it. I don’t want you borking fstab or the passwd file or some other important config because you don’t know how to quit without saving.
Lol love this.
If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn’t want to be on their machines either.
Sounds like it works then.
linearchaosWin:win ;)
I find vim quicker and easier for quick edits too, mostly because I’ve not bothered to learn anything but vim since it’s on everything (except, for some odd reason, the default build of Gentoo)
0xDOnce you get the hang of it it’s just so much quicker for small and big tasks.
Check out vim adventures:
Or just install vimtutor and try around. The basics are pretty simple, and the more advanced stuff infinitely helpful.
