• @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Nano is overrated. I tell everyone who needs to edit from the terminal to use vimtutor. You’ll never go back to Nano.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Vim has things like copy and paste, including being able to highlight text, search and replace, and I find its commands a lot less clunky than Nano’s. I am not a software developer or a sysadmin, just someone who uses Linux for fun. All of this stuff works without having X or Wayland running too.

        • glibg10b
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          Reaching over to CTRL every time you want to copy some text, delete a word, delete the next character or perform any other basic edit starts to take a toll on your hands after 20 minutes

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago
          • Teleportation: the cursor can be teleport to any line without pressing down key multiple times…

          • Macro: for repeating a sequence of inputs multiple times…

          • Tabs: nano can’t open multiple files at once i believe…

          • Split screen(horizontal and vertical)

          • Themes and plugins

          These are a few that comes to mind…

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Nano is the MS notepad of Linux. No more, no less. You don’t have the initial cost of learning vim with nano but in the end you’re working more. I really don’t understand how people can be productive without things like complex regexps, global commands, piping from the editor, etc.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Learning the basics of vim makes setting up a Linux system a lot easier. That’s all I’m saying. You don’t need to learn regexes or anything like that.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            I totally agree. The point is that learning the more advanced features will pay off in the future.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 years ago

      No it isn’t, it respect’s ctrl+c, SIGINT and gives useful feedback for new users. Many shortcuts are immediately shown on screen.

      • Sören
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        If you open vim the first thing you will see it’s a text describing how to close it. Not saying other things are easier for a new user but closing is pretty simple.

        • MouseWithBeer
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          112 years ago

          And the whole time you have nano open it shows you all the shortcuts how to save and close at the bottom, so no, closing nano is not harder.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            I had to look up the upside down V meant Ctrl, which makes sense to me now that I know, but I had to Google that.

            • MouseWithBeer
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              112 years ago

              Then you press ctrl+g for help and it tells you:

              Shortcuts are written as follows: Control-key sequences are notated with a ‘^’ and can be entered either by using the Ctrl key or pressing the Esc key twice.

              :D

              Actually TIL about pressing esc twice.

              • arthurpizza
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                32 years ago

                Why would you press CTRL+G if you didn’t know that ^ was CTRL?

                • MouseWithBeer
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                  102 years ago

                  Look at the screenshot I posted, it actually specifies “ctrl + g” for help.