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.
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.
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 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 exit 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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Mao.
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!
I use Helix… Uhhh idk I think it’s nice I guess
Helix for modal, Fresh for non-modal.
Neovim
I found the correct answer.
Team Neovim.
I looked into ed, then decided its not for me.
micro for sensible defaults out of the box, and because I don’t like modal editors.
Emacs
NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.
I only ever use a terminal based editor for making quick edits of config files, so nano works just fine for me.
Nano. It’s easy and I’ve never had a reason to change.
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 🤣.
Vim, but I also find this battle completely stupid.
No only OP provided almost no discussion value in the post body, but also this topic has been discussed one million times and nothing more can be talked about.
Isn’t the chance for us Lemmings to share experiences a good enough reason to start this thread?
To be frank, not really. What’s so special about us Lemmings? I mean, so many other people brighter and more experienced than us have already shared. Whatever we said here can only be a subset to that at most, then why not just read the old threads.
Understandable, have a good day!
Same to you. Happy holiday.
I appreciate the sentiment. No tru holiday under the evil Empire’s hammer tho.
I’m on team “whatever comes pre-installed”
