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

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I’ve been in camp Vim for decades, but I almost always suggest micro to people dipping their toe into Linux. I can’t imagine thinking nano, or whatever, would be more comfortable unless the person has never used a computer before.

  • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    6 hours ago

    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.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    6 hours ago

    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

  • smh@slrpnk.net
    14·
    6 hours ago

    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.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
    20·
    9 hours ago

    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·
      8 hours ago

      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.

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    53 minutes ago

    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

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    3·
    10 hours ago

    I mean, nano is cool I guess.

    But just today my colleague asked what parameter add to a configuration file. He asked me should it be before or after this line? I told him before, he added it after. He had to select the line with the mouse, copy the text, go above, paste it, go back and delete the line character by character.

    I mean, not too bad; but I was feeling very bad while seeing it happen.

    • bisby@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 hours ago

      ^K Cut and ^U Uncut (paste) were on the screen the WHOLE time this happened.

      “The instructions are on screen at all times!” is only a positive if you follow the instructions, otherwise they are wasting space.