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

AnUnusualRelic , 5 hours ago

The first time I found myself in nano was when testing a distro fifteenor twenty years ago. I had to edit some files and it was the only available editor. The damn thing was a horror to use. I still have no idea who it caters to. I haven’t had to use it since though.

Jean_le_Flambeur , 5 hours ago

Dunno what you used, but nano is literally a text editor that may be simple simple but it just works. Shortcuts are shown to the user, buttons work like you expect them to (arrow keys, ESC, shift, etc)

With vim you open it and if you haven’t read 5pages of doc you won’t even be able to close it again. I see that its useful for power users, but for casuals who just want to edit a config once in a while nano is absolutely the way to go imho

AnUnusualRelic , 5 minutes ago

It’s not that simplle or user friendly when none of the usual shortcuts work. C-a did something completely unexpected.

brokenlcd , 7 hours ago

Ed users entered the chat

pedz , 27 minutes ago

Sometimes you don’t even have the luxury of nano. Any moderately advanced Linux user should probably learn the basics of vi. Just knowing how to insert text and save it can fix a system that’s stuck in recovery. Even if it’s just to add a comment in front of a line in a config file.

Trantarius , 11 minutes ago

When does that even happen? If you have nano installed, wouldn’t it work too?

Mwa , 1 hour ago

kwrite and gedit friends rise up :)

pedz , 36 minutes ago

How do you use these when you are connecting via SSH? You enable X forwarding?

It’s fine when you have a graphical environment, but what do you do when you dont have one?

Mwa , 13 minutes ago

ohh yeahh then nano

Malgas , 3 minutes ago

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

lennivelkant , 35 minutes ago

Butterfly gang

blazeknave , 49 minutes ago

I spent the weekend failing to make my civ mods work, with a thousand lines of notes… 2/3 in, I think “damnit blazeknave. You spend months perfecting this stupid fucking obsidian setup, and you’ve been here in notepad+ like a fucking jabroni.”

linearchaos , 24 minutes ago

I do the same all the time with anytype.

I dropped notes into sublime and then go back and put them neatly into any type. I don’t really know why I do it either It takes any type a total of three or four seconds to start up and I have to enter in a passcode. But I only have to do it once. I guess I do have to think about where I’m going to put the document and making sure that it’s tagged correctly, it’s a lot easier just a scribble something into a random text window to forget about for a decade.

NOOBMASTER , 6 hours ago

isn’t there a separate instance for memes?

callyral , 2 minutes ago

Vim is pretty easy for me because I’m used to it. Nano is very difficult to use for me because I’ve rarely used it.

PseudoSpock , 34 minutes ago

There is always the Joe editor, if you like good ol’ Wordstar. :)

Steamymoomilk , 39 minutes ago

Micro is where its @ <3

kubica , 2 hours ago

My problem with those are that I always manage to get lost on where the program has its focus/what kind of instruction is expecting.
And while trying to go back to normal I end up messing it more and more.
Maybe some day I will get there, but it is still not the day.

MouseKeyboard , 6 hours ago

gedit supremacy