Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
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 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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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!
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.
micro for sensible defaults out of the box, and because I don’t like modal editors.
NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.
Emacs
Team Neovim.
I looked into ed, then decided its not for me.
Nano. It’s easy and I’ve never had a reason to change.
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.
vim
I only ever use a terminal based editor for making quick edits of config files, so nano works just fine for me.
Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.
I’m on team “whatever comes pre-installed”
I realized that I’d forgotten about pico and joe, the latter was my very first text editor (hated it!).
There are also Helix and Microsoft Edit.
“Why are we running from the police, Dad?”
“Because they use vim, son. We use Emacs”.
Nano, because it’s the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.
