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[–] [email protected] 233 points 11 months ago (7 children)

+1 for nano. I just need to change two parameters in a config file, not join a religion.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (3 children)

When the holy war comes, you'll be among the first sacrifices!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Ehh, that's fine. I'm not too psyched about living in whatever comes afterward.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nano is only helpfull because of this nifty little info bar at the bottom.. No one can actually remember nano-shortcuts.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I was talking with a sysadmin once who intentionally removed nano and emacs from any system he was granted access to. His explanation was “if they can’t use vim I don’t want them on my machines”

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's a sysadmin at my place who does exactly that. He's kind of an idiot too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (7 children)

If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn't want to be on their machines either.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like it works then.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I find vim quicker and easier for quick edits too, mostly because I've not bothered to learn anything but vim since it's on everything (except, for some odd reason, the default build of Gentoo)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I usually just don't give out the root password but what do I know lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wow, I hope he didnt choose their distro for them too.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've been using Vim for years, cause I can't figure out how to close it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

You came because it looked exciting...

You stayed because you couldn't leave.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (9 children)

EMACS is a great operating system, it only lacks a good editor.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a nano user, I fully agree.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. Nano is the best.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I
Seriously... it isn't
Shift+ZZ

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the world of text editors, VIM, specifically NeoVim is the shining light. Standing at the pinnacle of creation at a height that can only be reached by zealous emacs users.

They have a learning curve through. Nano is obviously easier, but it's also just a basic editor.

:x

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I ONLY EDIT TEXT BY TOGGLING OUT ASCII CODES ON A ROW OF SWITCHES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO MY PARALLEL PORT\n

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know your lying, because if you did, you would write a mix of capital and lower case letter, because one of the switches would control that bit

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I COULD ONLY AFFORD SIX SWITCHES. BIT 5 HAS A PULLDOWN RESISTOR ON IT\n

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

If I have to edit in a terminal: micro

If I need to edit something larger, and want a GUI: Kate

Anything else I flirt with and then drop promptly once I can't find the time to really learn it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Just use notepad++ with wine like any normal person do

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus, why can't people just expose their drives to cosmic radiation and have it switch the bits in the file? So much time wasted writing useless editors.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Really the users of any other editor. We just see you as a bunch of nerds. But you build good stuff

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only editor I need:

Create: printf "TEXT" > FILE

Add: printf "TEXT" >> FILE

No room for mistakes.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Micro users: am i joke to you

(I use VSCode)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Noone’s talking about Helix smh

It definitely looks different btw

https://helix-editor.com

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Nano, based.

If I use VI or VIM I'm going to have to kill the task because I just tried to exit and uggggghhhh why!?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, vim. I wish I knew how to quit you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

unless you accidentally pressed "q" to early and entered recording-mode...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Just use sed -i like God intended.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We need to :q! this war for good.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Use DE and edit files with graphical editors like a normal human being.

Problem solved.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I recently worked on a system that had the TERM variable botched and filtered and no nano, just vim. It was all hell. The escape sequences in vim wouldn't work. I ended up suspendig it with ctrl+z, killing it, then editing the config with fucking ed and sed. That hoster sucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Name and shame.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

who needs a UI or even hints as to what you are doing amirite

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