Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.
Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized
Team Neovim.
I looked into ed, then decided its not for me.
Neovim
I found the correct answer.
another vote for Neovim!
I only ever use a terminal based editor for making quick edits of config files, so nano works just fine for me.
Rust
Ew
nano but i’m a casual. i can use vi/vim in a pinch, but i’m inefficient. ed and emacs are totally foreign
i tend to use a graphical text editor like Kate unless there is a specific reason to do it in the terminal
nano, and I’m an expert.
same. I’ll use vi if there’s nothing else available, but I default to nano if I can
I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.
I use Helix… Uhhh idk I think it’s nice I guess
There are dozens of us!
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Helix for modal, Fresh for non-modal.
Hmmm, Fresh looks interesting, didn’t know about that one!
Neovim. One time I accidentally opened nano and couldn’t figure out how to get out of it… Wtf is with those keybinds?
Lol at emacs not even being on your list. Suck it, emacs users 😂😂❤️
It literally tells you like 3 ways you exit nano at the bottom
Firstly, Emacs is not an alternative to any terminal based text editor, it’s an alternative to the terminal based workflow in general.
Secondly, Emacs users can live without the hype, churn and elitism of the vim ecosystem and with a better editor instead.
Shots fired!
As the old joke goes: Emacs is great if you want to learn another OS.
I’m a barbarian vim user. Whenever I watch a real Emacs user operate a full dev environment inside of Emacs I’m always left stunned. It’s a whole universe of functionality, not just a refined line editor like vim.
And not just an editor, but an entire environment! I’ve only been using emacs for a few weeks now, but i’m really enjoying it. I’m not a developer, but i still find magit really awesome to use for my git needs, and atp i’ve replaced yazi with dired as my keyboard-driven file manager.
vim
nano. I can’t memorize esoterica.
That’s who micro exist. And is so much better.
nano still wins. All the shortcuts are listed at the bottom.
Micro doesn’t need to list the shortcuts because it uses similar shortcuts to notepad and you don’t have to do weird ctrl+x to exit but ctrl+q (for quit). Also copy and pasting isn’t a nightmare in it.
Copy and paste in nano work just fine - no clue what you’re talking about. It uses standards established in the '80s - Ctrl-X for eXit being an even older standard - and clearly lists them visibly for a quick reminder.
Yeah cutting text with ctrl+k instead of ctrl+x (because that’s exit) and copying with alt +6 instead of ctrl+c.
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Mao.
Yeah, that’s what the shortcut hint shows, champ.
Why doesn’t my Lemmy comment box show shortcut hints? How will I know the shortcut for copy, cut and paste? I tried pressing alt+6 but it did nothing. Curse you Ecmascript from 1997!
In emacs ctrl+y is paste, which is weird to me because i’m pretty sure even in emacs the logic is that y stands for yank, but in every other program i’ve used so far yank means copy, not paste. In the end though i feel like muscle memory from other editors don’t bother me as much, and i can learn multiple at the same time. I started with evil mode for vim bindings for a short while, but now i’m diving into pure emacs bindings.
Neovim, configured entirely through nixvim. I always liked neovim, but it’s never been as incredibly stable as now with nixvim.
Main/only IDE both in private and at work. Can’t ever go back, muscle memory has ensured that.
I used to use Neovim but now I mainly use Helix, it’s really good by default, the most hassle is usually just looking up an LSP for a language and installing it.
My config file literally only has the theme I use, unlike the heavy configs I’d have to make so that vim/nvim are the way I want. I also like the multiple cursor approach it has to editing.
I also like the multiple cursor approach it has to editing.
You do!? I cannot STAND it! Am I using it wrong? C to add another cursor on the line below but only if it already has a character in that column. It seems strictly worse than VIM’s visual line selection with V.
For use cases like that it’s usually better to search a pattern and split it to cursors. Also using line selects helps.
I remember being annoyed at what you said but I guess I was overusing C for new cursors when there were other ways to do what I needed because I don’t have that often now
