me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.
Emacs has a menu, it’s not exactly hard. F10 to open the menu in text mode
nano gang represent😎
I can use Vim, it was the choice for years. But I actually like using nano because it’s what I need and all I need.
I actually prefer micro
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
Ah, the famous NCIS way of exiting editors.
Thanks, I hate it!
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. 😄
This is what i use vim for. Vim doesn’t necessarily have to be a full blown ide with 30 plugins
I don’t get why there’s so much prejudice towards nano users in the Linux community, people act like nano is useless but it performs its job well, and it does it without being large or overly complicated.
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.
Nano is fine for editing, fine for working with configuration files. It only fails when you try to use it as a development editor
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
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.
I used some distro with vim back in the day and I just kept using it. I lose my shit when I use something with just nano and my muscle memory tries to do a vim thing.
I try to ctrl+x ctrl+c in things that aren’t Emacs. Whichever you choose you eventually learn it well and it seems so easy that it’s hard to see what the advantage of an alternative might be good for
No one can argue against you as you know how to use the tool. Vi and Emacs are both perfectly capable editors, both have been used to make huge amounts of code. Both are great for updating configuration files, both beat the simple editors when it comes to syntex highlighting and encouraging correct updates
If I can’t :wq I have a panic attack
Same. Makes nano a fucking nightmare.
My computer my choice
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.
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.nano is the perfect editor for people who only use editors in the terminal, once in a while to edit a config file.
I don’t think it’s the perfect editor for anything. They’ll have to use vi sooner or later, they might as well learn the basics. Or just use kate.
I’ve been using linux for 25 years and I can count the number of times I used vi to actually edit something on one hand. They will not “have to use vi sooner or later.”
It’s OK not to like and not use nano. It’s also OK to like and use nano.
It’s fine if you only use your own machine. I suppose having accounts on other boxes is less common nowadays, but there’s much less guarantee to find your comfort editor there.
Also a 30 year+ linux/unix user.
Use Kate in command line over ssh?
Ssh - X
Then run kate, easy :)
But I don’t have a DE installed! :p
“I hated using it”
“But you have used it, yes?”Well, yes. But I did wash my hands afterwards.
Do they have a sink in eMacs now?
Helix:
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.
HAHAHA HAHAHA
announce to the world you know fuck-all about either, lol
Emacs evil mode enters the chatVS 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)
Micro for the win
