Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
Nano because like why would I bother with anything else? It’s just a quick and dirty text editor.
Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized
Emacs
how do y’all deal with that pinky
mcedit
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.
vim, mainly cause I haven’t figured out how to quit yet.
Micro, for muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts from when I was a mostly GUI user.
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.
Mostly Neovim and Nano. Tried out ed in the UNIX4 tape that got recovered, was strange but fun to see where sed, grep and other commands got their name from.
GUI is still good old Sublime Text, but I almost completely switched to terminal based editors, I guess because of the nice work flow.
kate textfile &and what ?? don’t leave me hanging
Vim, but I also find this battle completely stupid.
Sure, but now I’m curious about all this helix business, and what’s up with org mode in EMACS? Like, y’all can do presentations in a CLI editor? Is it that text-to-diagram code or something?
Neovim. One time I accidentally opened nano and couldn’t figure out how to get out of it… Wtf is with those keybinds?
Lol at emacs not even being on your list. Suck it, emacs users 😂😂❤️
Firstly, Emacs is not an alternative to any terminal based text editor, it’s an alternative to the terminal based workflow in general.
Secondly, Emacs users can live without the hype, churn and elitism of the vim ecosystem and with a better editor instead.
Helix
I’ve never heard of helix before, is it any good?
Imagine vim designed today.
I use it daily and think so. 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.
This all being said a plugin system is close to being added. :)
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