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
Vim users: “I feel bad for you”
Nano users: “I don’t think about you at all”
Nano users :
Me no think
Nano users have more important things to think about, saying this as an nvim user
yeah, like where the “any” key is on their keyboard
OP suggests otherwise.
Oh yeah? Well this says otherwise.
I think it’s more likely the opposite.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
I love nano. I used to do tech support for a Linux-based content management system (before SAaS take took off)… The customer sysadmins were sometimes whichever engineer was volun-told to do it, so competency varied wildly.
I helped mostly with installs. This might be the poor newbie sysadmin’s first time on the command line. Nano was my go-to suggestion for editing config files–all the commands are right there! Much less intimidating than vi or emacs for a newbie.
Nano you can pick up in ten minutes and master in an afternoon. By that time you’re still reading the intro to vim or eMacs.
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)
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.
There are exceptions to everything.
I use micro. It’s 1000x better.
Today I learned about the existence of “milli” and “kilo”, both of which are terminal-based text editors! Quite interesting. I wonder if there are any more SI unit prefix text editors…
Holding out for a cursed deca
Pico…I’m going the wrong direction
Ugh. At least two decades I’ve used them and never made that connection. Thank you. And curse you. lol
Peta
I was coming here to say “what about micro?”
Nano with a few config options by default?
Doesn’t come standard like nano tho for a lot of distros
barely an inconvenience, you’re one curl away from it
Assuming you have internet access lmao
idk if I ever set up a new machine without internet access, but sure
there are corner cases you’ll need to use what’s available. They should be exceptions.
My computer my choice
There is a right choice and you know it. Stop bring silly and say it out loud!
(Duck and cover, flame war!)
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.
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 use Helix btw
nice! LMK if they ever get that frontend running
You can subscribe to the GitHub discussion, it looks like there are some prototypes but not a definitive GUI: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/11783
Helix is my favorite, it does everything I want a text editor to do and it’s much more intuitive than vim/nvim. I was never a power user of either so I’m sure it’s missing plenty of functionality that nvim users are used to but it’s perfect for my use cases.
Ah, my kith and kin. Salutations, ye of excellent discerning taste.
+1 for a Helix home.
Some real talk.
Can we just include the 4 most popular text editors on basic systems??
Like i wanna scream when there isnt my text editor installed on a lightweight distro.
Vi Emacs Micro Nano
For context,
Debian ships with nano and vi Openwrt only ships with nano
Like cant we just include small editors. In a perfect world i would want neovim installed. But i understand its larger and has alot more dependency’s.
So having VI isnt as good but im willing to be reasonable.
JUST INCLUDE VI
the reason i learned vim is because VI is installed by default on almost every distro.
Im tempted to try emacs tho
EMacs is an operating system masquerading as an editor.
For OpenWRT Nano is a good choice. Nobody spends hours in a text editor on that system. You can ssh into it and use any fancy editor with a million plugins installed on your own computer.
It’s important to learn how to use package managers. :)
Madness lies in that direction.
Emacs macros are sooo nice.
No love for vim?
vim is just vi in drag
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.
