me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    4 小时前

    Fortunately, every computer comes equipped with an “exit editor” button. It’s on the back, attached to the power supply unit. You just flick the switch. Exits every editor known to humanity. /j

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    7 小时前

    I used some distro with vim back in the day and I just kept using it. I lose my shit when I use something with just nano and my muscle memory tries to do a vim thing.

  • smh@slrpnk.net
    19·
    9 小时前

    I love nano. I used to do tech support for a Linux-based content management system (before SAaS take took off)… The customer sysadmins were sometimes whichever engineer was volun-told to do it, so competency varied wildly.

    I helped mostly with installs. This might be the poor newbie sysadmin’s first time on the command line. Nano was my go-to suggestion for editing config files–all the commands are right there! Much less intimidating than vi or emacs for a newbie.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    9 小时前

    Some real talk.

    Can we just include the 4 most popular text editors on basic systems??

    Like i wanna scream when there isnt my text editor installed on a lightweight distro.

    Vi Emacs Micro Nano

    For context,

    Debian ships with nano and vi Openwrt only ships with nano

    Like cant we just include small editors. In a perfect world i would want neovim installed. But i understand its larger and has alot more dependency’s.

    So having VI isnt as good but im willing to be reasonable.

    JUST INCLUDE VI

    the reason i learned vim is because VI is installed by default on almost every distro.

    Im tempted to try emacs tho

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    15 小时前

    The image is misleading. The brain sizes represent the amount of grey matter it takes to operate the editor. The nano guy has plenty of brain power left over for things like hygiene, breathing and basic reasoning.

  • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    12 小时前

    nano is just a text editor, I use it as a text editor, it has keybindings on screen by default, no need to config or memorise, why bother? (for text editing, not whatever people use vim or emacs for)

    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      11 小时前

      Kind of, but not really? Nano by default displays US English(?) keyboard bindings which are different to the keyboard I have, so I still have to have a cheat sheet open when I’m on a system with nano-only editor.

  • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    9 小时前

    When I was first learning how to code I was working on some beginner project and couldn’t figure it out. I asked a friend who knew a few things what I was doing wrong and he hopped on my computer, fixed the code then opened it in vim and told me my project wasn’t working because of whatever text editor I was using (I think sublime). So for like a year I hardly learned how to code but I got pretty dang good with vim.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    53·
    16 小时前

    I do appreciate this in nano. It helps me complete the new container config occasionally required to install vim.

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      31·
      16 小时前

      I’m team nano, I’m not smart enough to use the other two and for whenever I need to open a text file in terminal only environment once every year I can remember how to navigate nano. So I’ll keep using nano.

      • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
        3·
        11 小时前

        I use emacs but it’s only convenient to me with a lot of custom stuff on top. Vanilla emacs tho, hell no.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      10·
      16 小时前

      Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.

      Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      35·
      16 小时前

      I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.

      Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.

      So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 小时前

      Most tradespeople will have favoured tools. It might be for woodworking, plumbing, electrics, plastering or writing code.

      There’s little point in being tribal about it, but conversations will happen.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      14 小时前

      Real answer: those things matter to me because a quick frictionless experience very heavily dependant on muscle memory really helps with my ADHD. Laggy interfaces, having to hold left key for several seconds, and similar issues quickly pull my out of my train of thought.

      It’s not about shaving 2 minutes off my day, it’s about not interrupting the flow.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 小时前

      Because there is only one objectively right answer. Anyone who use anything else is no true unix user.