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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago
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    nano friends rise up!

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      I too use nano.

      alias nano="vi -y"

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

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

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

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              just when you thought you knew how to exit vim lol
              also, this is vim’s “easy” mode.

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        ln -sf /bin/nano /bin/vi
        
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      I like Nano. I think it is quite good. There, I said it.

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        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

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          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.

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            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

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              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.

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      Well hello there!

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      Looks like you only got one so far.

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        There are dozens of us!

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        nah you’re wrong

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          Why do you all say that? There were no replies when I added mine so that’s why I said what I said.

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