2y ago

Very clever...

I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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nano crew where you at
- It's hard to hate nano, but IMHO there also isn't anything to like in particular either. It's basically a TUI notepad. It's there, it lets people edit files... and that's pretty much all there is to it.
  
  You can use nano without having to read anything about nano. That might be the only thing that is better about it than vim, but it's a damn important thing.
  
  I have zero patience when trying to make small adjustments to files, which is what my command line text editor should be for. Nano just has everything at the bottom in case you forget (I do, frequently) so the workflow is ridiculously streamlined for me
  
  Absolutely. It also has whole-line cut/uncut which is a godsend when working with config files
  
  Ironically, that's like the one thing I've learned to do in Vim.
  
  Because it's easy, dd to delete a line and p to paste it somewhere else.
  
  Personally I'd be somewhat nervous using dd to edit parts of a text file, but you do you :)
  
  Well, if you dd+p you paste it back again, and then it's in the clipboard so you can p it in other places. In any case you can u(ndo) it without issues.
  
  yy to copy, dd to cut, p to paste. Need to move 5 lines at once? No problem, move to the first line and use d5d, and p to paste it. Vim gets a bad rap for being confusing, but it's so fast to move text around once you get the hang of it.
  
  it's basically a TUI notepad. It's there, it does one job and that's all there is to it
  That's what the people who like it like about it.
  
  That’s it’s job
  What else is there for it to do?
  
  I mean, why compare it with vim at all then. Apples and oranges...
  
  Forget KISS, amirite.
  
  Yeah it literally follows the UNIX philosophy
  
  nano is just... There when you need a text editor for something. Simple and purposeful
  
  It has syntax highlighting and mouse support.
- I like nano because it has worked any time I needed it. I don't dislike nano because I'm not good enough at Linux to have ever run into its limitations
- nano gang checking in.
  However, I’ve been forced over time to remember “:wq” to get unstuck should vim randomly appear.
  
  Alternatively, you can save a key and use :x (And :q! to quit without saving)
  Yeah, that’s such a Vim user thing to say :P
  
  :up|cq to save a write cycle and signal an error to whatever opened Vim.
  
  How do u learn this voodoo
  
  20 years of software engineering and you too will have a 10-20% chance of knowing how to exit vim.
  
  I’ve done 35 years, but the first 25 years on the dark side M$.
- I personally like nano but it's what I used first. So I learned the commands. Vim I still forget Everytime.
- % of the time I'm using nano to edit something in the terminal, and it's usually something really minor. I'm using GUIs for the majority of my computing anyway, so if I need some robust text editing, I've got a bunch of easier-to-learn, easier-to-use options available, and that's totally ignoring things like awk, grep, sed, etc.
  
  My god, what is this 100 image...
- Pico gang reporting in.
- i’ve only ever used nano in the early stages of a gentoo install, when it’s too early to install vim and import my dot files 😈
- Here!
  I hate terminal-based text editors
  Nano seems quite user/idiot friendly
- hopefully switching to micro
  
  I made that switch a few months ago just so I could cut, copy and paste without having to lookup how to do it. it's been great.
- Proudly, first thing I install on Termux.

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