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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Look, some of us old farts started on Linux back before nano was included by default, and your options for text editing on the command line were either:

  1. vi/vim, a perfectly competent text editor with arcane and unintuitive key combos for commands
  2. emacs, a ludicrously overcomplicated kitchen-sink program that had reasonable text-editing functionality wedged in between the universal woodchuck remote control and the birdcall translation system

Given those options, most of us chose to learn how to key-chord our way around vim, and old habits die hard.