Nano users :

Me no think

OP suggests otherwise.

I think it's more likely the opposite.

vim guy, emacs guy look big brain. me brain smol. me bathe yesterday, thank you.

I'm team nano, I'm not smart enough to use the other two and for whenever I need to open a text file in terminal only environment once every year I can remember how to navigate nano. So I'll keep using nano.

Yes. It's newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there's no alternative editor installed.

Copy and paste are there too, but there's no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

Omega-level container brain

Hey, what's the benefit in using vim with containers? I usually just apt install and get on with it.

Kind of, but not really? Nano by default displays US English(?) keyboard bindings which are different to the keyboard I have, so I still have to have a cheat sheet open when I'm on a system with nano-only editor.

Today I learned about the existence of "milli" and "kilo", both of which are terminal-based text editors! Quite interesting. I wonder if there are any more SI unit prefix text editors...

Pico...I'm going the wrong direction

I was coming here to say "what about micro?"

Nano with a few config options by default?

Doesn't come standard like nano tho for a lot of distros

I can use Vim, it was the choice for years. But I actually like using nano because it's what I need and all I need.

I actually prefer micro

Nano you can pick up in ten minutes and master in an afternoon. By that time you’re still reading the intro to vim or eMacs.

Same. Makes nano a fucking nightmare.

I try to ctrl+x ctrl+c in things that aren't Emacs. Whichever you choose you eventually learn it well and it seems so easy that it's hard to see what the advantage of an alternative might be good for

No one can argue against you as you know how to use the tool. Vi and Emacs are both perfectly capable editors, both have been used to make huge amounts of code. Both are great for updating configuration files, both beat the simple editors when it comes to syntex highlighting and encouraging correct updates

nice! LMK if they ever get that frontend running

Ah, my kith and kin. Salutations, ye of excellent discerning taste.

Helix is my favorite, it does everything I want a text editor to do and it's much more intuitive than vim/nvim. I was never a power user of either so I'm sure it's missing plenty of functionality that nvim users are used to but it's perfect for my use cases.

+1 for a Helix home.

I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.

Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.

So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

Real answer: those things matter to me because a quick frictionless experience very heavily dependant on muscle memory really helps with my ADHD. Laggy interfaces, having to hold left key for several seconds, and similar issues quickly pull my out of my train of thought.

It's not about shaving 2 minutes off my day, it's about not interrupting the flow.

when nerds fight, it's the text editors that suffer

Most tradespeople will have favoured tools. It might be for woodworking, plumbing, electrics, plastering or writing code.

There's little point in being tribal about it, but conversations will happen.

Because there is only one objectively right answer. Anyone who use anything else is no true unix user.

You mean a Rubik’s cube.

It's important to learn how to use package managers. :)

EMacs is an operating system masquerading as an editor.

For OpenWRT Nano is a good choice. Nobody spends hours in a text editor on that system. You can ssh into it and use any fancy editor with a million plugins installed on your own computer.

Emacs macros are sooo nice.

Madness lies in that direction.

No love for vim?

bash: ed: command not found

WHERE GOD NOW?

This is what i use vim for. Vim doesn't necessarily have to be a full blown ide with 30 plugins