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      • jdeath@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        wow, nano is usually everyone’s first editor and them moving on to Vim. interesting to invert that. what do you like about nano?

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          That depends a lot on when they started.

          When I first installed a distribution where the base system only came with nano instead of standard editors, I was very confused (and very disappointed that this whas what they’d come up with as a “friendly” interface).

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            well, like the parent of my comment said, nano is a lot easier to use than vim or emacs. nano is much more like DOS edit or stuff like that. there are many memes about not being able to quit Vim, etc

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          Ease of use. When it comes to coding I prefer a GUI as well.

          I used Vim when I first installed Linux. It was painful but I used it. I found Nano and I stopped using Vim. No comparison in usability.

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            1 day ago

            yeah Vim takes a lot of effort to learn. Like any advanced tool. I will 100% always fire up nano when in a hurry. but i like trying to learn Vim as an exercise (in torture? idk haha)

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        The main things i learnt from vim are Escape :q and ^Z. Not a dig on vim, but it was quite a learning curve at the time when nano has been good enough for just about everything i do day to day.

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        I dont know what that acronym means. I just use nano as a basic text editor, its automatically showing me different colours XML now. I have used it as a text editor for code before, but if i knew i was going to be coding lots, id look at others like vim and emacs. Me using it is a result of it being the quickest tool to get the job done at the time ‘efficiently’ and i know there are more powerful ones out there.