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I watched oppenheimer in emacs, u watched it in imax, we are not the same

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nano is a fantastic default editor for gui-focused distros. If you aren't a command line wizard, nano is a better default because it's a lot more straightforward.

That said, nano is incredibly limited and if you have any experience with vi/vim/nvim, it's the best solution full stop. It's so much faster and more powerful but hot damn is it unintuitive for noobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a nanoite who couldn't be bothered to learn editor commands, I switched to turbo, which is essentially a linux port of the DOS text editor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, interesting!

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

I was using vim for the first time the other day and I was running through the built in vimtutor. I got a call from a friend and they asked what I was up to, and I said I was doing a tutorial for a text editor. At that moment, I felt simultaneously very silly and very smart.