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

  • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    1 hour 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
      1·
      11 minutes 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.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    443·
    4 hours ago

    The image is misleading. The brain sizes represent the amount of grey matter it takes to operate the editor. The nano guy has plenty of brain power left over for things like hygiene, breathing and basic reasoning.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    431·
    5 hours ago

    I do appreciate this in nano. It helps me complete the new container config occasionally required to install vim.

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      261·
      5 hours ago

      I’m team nano, I’m not smart enough to use the other two and for whenever I need to open a text file in terminal only environment once every year I can remember how to navigate nano. So I’ll keep using nano.

      • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        6 minutes ago

        I use emacs but it’s only convenient to me with a lot of custom stuff on top. Vanilla emacs tho, hell no.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 hours ago

      Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.

      Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
    224·
    4 hours ago

    micro enters the chat.

    Static, portable binary with no dependencies.

    Out of the box:

    • Syntax highlighting
    • Multi-line cursors like Sublime Text
    • Mouse support (works incredibly well)
    • Splits and tabs for working on multiple files
    • Diff gutter
    • Copy and paste with system clipboard
    • Cross-platform (runs basically on anything that Go does)
    • Sane key binds (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-x, etc)
    • Terminal emulator
    • Plugin system to extend it
    • And much much more

    I have nothing to do with the project but this binary is the absolute best. curl or wget to any host and away you go with effectively a Sublime Text / VSCode like in the terminal. It’s as simple as nano and as functional as a well configured and extended vim.

    It’s baffling it’s not more well known and not installed by default on major distros.

    • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
      51·
      4 hours ago

      I use nano because I can’t be assed to memorize key bindings, but I’ll give this a go

    • CodeMonkey@programming.dev
      13·
      4 hours ago

      How many Linux distros include micro in their minimal image? Vim, emacs, and nano are good because I can connect to just about any container or Linux VM and expect to have all of them available.

      Let’s say I have a test that always passes on my machine but fails in CI. If I can get a terminal on the test runner, I can open up my test code in vim, add extra logging and error handling, and rerun the test to check my fix.

      I am not going to install additional editors in a VM that will be recreated next time I push a code change. If I am setting up a development environment for long term use, I will install my favorite IDE and configuring all the bells and whistles.

  • hedders@fedia.io
    291·
    5 hours ago

    Never ceases to amaze me how people get so exercised over a text editor.

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      291·
      4 hours ago

      I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.

      Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.

      So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Real answer: those things matter to me because a quick frictionless experience very heavily dependant on muscle memory really helps with my ADHD. Laggy interfaces, having to hold left key for several seconds, and similar issues quickly pull my out of my train of thought.

      It’s not about shaving 2 minutes off my day, it’s about not interrupting the flow.

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Because there is only one objectively right answer. Anyone who use anything else is no true unix user.

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Nano say so at bottom but so does vim if it thinks you’re trying to exit.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          3 hours ago

          fastfetch | grep ackage
          Packages: 2530 (dpkg), 21 (flatpak)

          me no remove package. me start with vanilla debian install. no need gui until me choose to install gui.

          • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Please file a bug with the Debian maintainers.

            How are people supposed to edit files without the standard editor?

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              1 hour ago

              with nano? /uj maybe it was an option during the install, IDK, I don’t want to bother the folks with a suspicion and a shitty memory, nor do I want to reinstall deb somewhere else

              • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
                2·
                52 minutes ago

                I was joking, definitely don’t write them to install an editor that’s obsolete.

                sed and grep (both inspired by ed) to do most of what ed does in a modern way, and ed was only useful over teletype when it was slow/expensive to render a scrollable field.

                All modern TTYs support scroll regions, and with sed it just doesn’t make sense to use ed anymore.

                ed as the standard editor is mostly a meme based on this page https://wiki.c2.com/?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    1·
    2 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
      3·
      46 minutes 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.