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

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    11 hours ago

    Honestly nano is perfect for quick edits. Vim and Emacs are powerful, but sometimes you just want to open a config file, change one line, and exit without fighting the editor. 😄

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      3 hours ago

      This is what i use vim for. Vim doesn’t necessarily have to be a full blown ide with 30 plugins

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        Vim does not just work if you don’t know how to get into edit mode and save and quit from there. Nano even has built in search and replace.

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          Funny story, when i first got into linux (almost a decade ago), I accidentally opened nano pasting some random command off the internet and didn’t know how to close it because I didn’t know what the ^ symbol meant.

          I had successfully been quiting (and using) vim for a few months at this point.

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    10 hours ago

    Linux text editor discourse has been baffling to me for decades now. I don’t care which you use, and I care even less about why.

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    10 hours ago

    VS Code is probably the editor that’s easiest to exit. If I ran it on the computer I first ran Emacs on, it’d exit immediately, because VS Code requires a modern version of Windows and that computer had Windows 3.11. If I ran it on the first computer I ran Linux on, it’d also exit immediately because the machine would run out of memory. (…it was a 486DX, I don’t remember how much memory it had, but VS Code doesn’t run well if your memory is measured in megabytes)

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    12 hours ago

    nano is usually built in. Adding another one is just redundant if all you’re using it for is editing an occasional config file.

    Honestly never understood the hate for it. Who cares? Petty, stupid, nerd-wars over little crap like a text editor is the reason average people don’t even consider linux.

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      3 hours ago

      I see vim preinstalled more than nano (e.g. in container images). I’ve been trying to convert to micro, though. It has better support for terminal emulators than nano.

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      11 hours ago

      I very rarely see people hate nano (except a few comments in this thread), and I always see nano recommended as the text editor when people give advice on doing things in the command line

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    10 hours ago

    Emacs is a table saw, vim is a chainsaw, nano is a scissor. Every problem those 3 solve is a differently sized single sheet of paper.

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    15 hours ago

    I first ran into nano when I gave Gentoo a try. I had to edit a few config files, so I ran vi… no vi. Emacs? No Emacs. Well, shit, what am I supposed to do? So I went back a bit and read more carefully, apparently there was a thing called nano.
    So I ran that. Ew. It was a clone of an old DOS editor of all things. What kind of lunatic had ported that? Anyway I managed to do my edits with it, added normal editors to the system and was on my way.
    It was also the last time I used it.

  • Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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