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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use (lemmy.fosshost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 months ago (4 children)

nano friends rise up!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I too use nano.

alias nano="vi -y"

[–] fin 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just tried it in my terminal and I couldn’t exit, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sorry, i didn't tell how to quit. it's ctrl+q

[–] fin 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I finally got my access to the terminal back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

just when you thought you knew how to exit vim lol
also, this is vim's "easy" mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ln -sf /bin/nano /bin/vi

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like Nano. I think it is quite good. There, I said it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Edit a file, writing a quick shell script or whatever in the terminal. Nano is great. I don't see any use in learning vim or emacs. If I need something more I'm going use a gui editor anyway.

Don't get triggered anyone it's just my preference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is my thought process exactly.

I get it, for a power user, vim is probably incredibly powerful. However, I just want to edit text files. I don't want a text editor where I need a cheat sheet just to save my changes and quit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny, that's what I hate about Nano. The key binds seem completely random to me and the programs solution to this is to display a cheatsheet on the screen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Control+W = "Where is," Control+O = "Overwrite", Control+X = "Exit."

Makes just enough sense to me, and those are really the only three binds I ever need for editing config files.

I don't want to come off like a vim hater, because I do believe it when people say it's powerful, but... I don't need powerful. I just need to edit text files.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well hello there!