Text editor war

+1 for nano. I just need to change two parameters in a config file, not join a religion.

I was talking with a sysadmin once who intentionally removed nano and emacs from any system he was granted access to. His explanation was “if they can’t use vim I don’t want them on my machines”

I've been using Vim for years, cause I can't figure out how to close it.

EMACS is a great operating system, it only lacks a good editor.

As a nano user, I fully agree.

In the world of text editors, VIM, specifically NeoVim is the shining light. Standing at the pinnacle of creation at a height that can only be reached by zealous emacs users.

They have a learning curve through. Nano is obviously easier, but it's also just a basic editor.

:x

I ONLY EDIT TEXT BY TOGGLING OUT ASCII CODES ON A ROW OF SWITCHES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO MY PARALLEL PORT\n

If I have to edit in a terminal: micro

If I need to edit something larger, and want a GUI: Kate

Anything else I flirt with and then drop promptly once I can't find the time to really learn it.

Jesus, why can't people just expose their drives to cosmic radiation and have it switch the bits in the file? So much time wasted writing useless editors.

Just use notepad++ with wine like any normal person do

Really the users of any other editor. We just see you as a bunch of nerds. But you build good stuff

The only editor I need:

Create: printf "TEXT" > FILE

Add: printf "TEXT" >> FILE

No room for mistakes.

Micro users: am i joke to you

(I use VSCode)

Nano, based.

If I use VI or VIM I'm going to have to kill the task because I just tried to exit and uggggghhhh why!?

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Oh, vim. I wish I knew how to quit you.

Just use sed -i like God intended.

We need to :q! this war for good.

I prefer micro.

mcedit for life

I recently worked on a system that had the TERM variable botched and filtered and no nano, just vim. It was all hell. The escape sequences in vim wouldn't work. I ended up suspendig it with ctrl+z, killing it, then editing the config with fucking ed and sed. That hoster sucks.

Use DE and edit files with graphical editors like a normal human being.

Problem solved.

Did I mention I use Arch?

:.,$d i use whatever works best for you, k?? esc :wq!

I’m a fkn vi user and I will say that it is not entirely wrong. ^:wq

$ ed

ed

Ed is the standard text editor.

Both are good but I prefer Vim.

Micro is great

I only use Vim, but I appreciate nano as a choice and don't even really mind visudo opening nano

dgg:wq

neovim is better than vim

I'm the only one who use joe?

What about Micro users 🥲

I wish I could just edit text files as sudo with the default gnome text editor instead.

nano for editing config files, emacs if I'm writing code... kwrite or joplin if I need a scratch pad or to share notes between devices respectively

Nedit - was a great simple editor i discovered on SGI IRIX, still use it today. Also, emacs is in a class of itself, it's more OS than text editor 🤣

sudo nano

Where’s vscode? Lol

I'd probably use helix/codium with vim bindings for more complex projects, with vim for Scripting in python/shell/config files

xed supremacy

How dare you

Vim user here. I still can't find the value of c to the power of x in nano. Does anyone have the answer?

vim and emacs are ide like text editors.

Long live to emacs!

it doesn't matter to me.

I'll have to Google it anyway. then complain about it, and never actually take the time to learn these neat tools

"Vim? Nah, no need"

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For advanced text editing (and project management) though, I have to give a shout out to Obsidian MD (markdown) and whomever made the code plugin for it

Heathen!

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

As a VIM user, I approve.

Both are inferior to IDEs when working locally on a software project 🤷