Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
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Text editors should be simple and approachable above all. Nano is undeniably the best by this definition.
"Ed is the standard text editor." Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: golem> ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? --- Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity. "Ed is the standard text editor." Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR. When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard. Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!I’ve been daily driving nano for years, I wish it was less of an afterthought when people debate text editors.
As a simple terminal editor with no bells and whistles it works great, I used it a lot at my last job when I had to make a small tweek on a program that was loaded on the “build server”.
It’s simple, easy to use, and doesn"t fight you.
I do not agree with your premise. Some editors should be simple and approachable above all. Some should also be super customizable and efficient to use for those who want do dive deep into their editor.
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all.
Why? I’d say they should edit text well above all.
If i need more than Nano has to offer, I’d much rather use a GUI editor like Kate though.
For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.
For editing code, I’ve used just about everything for one reason or another but it’s usually just my IDE with the directory open.
it feels like it was made quickly after people complained about vim or emacs bein too hard and then just minimally maintained
It’s good enough for the requirement.
Can’t remember key-combinations? You have a list right there.
It’s for those who just need the occasional file editing usingsshorsudo.
For anything more, you havevimand you can configure stuff to your liking. Nothing needs to be added tonano.
You surely mean Emacs, no?
He tried to, but couldn’t enter edit mode to type it out
vim -> gnu emacs
emacs -> back to vim
vim -> back to emacs
emacs -> neovim
Full enlightenment achieved
neovim -> helix
enlightenment upgraded
eda Ascended .
I’m more of an Ajax guy.
How do I get off Google voice?
Guess what? :)
Vim
Vim -> Emacs
Please! no more editor wars, just use
ed! And if you need the fancy modern features, you can always use notepad.Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all, is the standard text editor
Vim -> Helix
No. Nano or gtfo
You’d have to know how to exit Vim to do that though
My nemisis, we meet again!
Even though I regularly use vim for editing files, so many shortcuts and commands are still unknown. How would one approach this issue without reading the man page? Asking for a friend…
It depends on your distro. It could be
sudo apt install emacsorsudo dnf install emacsorsudo pacman -S emacs, etc.vimtutoris the starting point for learning vim, but it’s fairly surface-level. To actually learn vim, you should read through the user manual by typing:help usr_01and hitting enter in vim. It’s also accessible online here: https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt.It’s a fairly quick read, about 40ish pages that are reasonably short and is intended to be read straight through like a book. It provides a good overview of all of vim’s features.
Note: this is distinct from the reference manual, which is much, much larger and isn’t intended to be read straight through.
$ vimtutor
At first I thought you were joking. But that is actually a command. I’m surprised. Thanks!
No worries. I’ve been using vim for years and still don’t use anything fancier than marks and regex editing. 😄
Why Chatgpt and not Gemini? Also why no vpn? You could have put VPN by Google
Just gonna leave this here:
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This would be funnier if it were emacs since that’s the one that has a metric ton of plugins for all of these
Vim too. The difference is that emacs cultivates and promotes its omnitool capabilities, while vim hides its equally omnipotent plugins shamefully in https://www.vim.org/scripts/
Honestly it’s kinda true except for Photos and Maps. Everything that is not fundamentally visual by nature can pretty efficiently be done with Vim. It truly excels at manipulating and navigating through text.
I’m not shure whether vim is not capable of handling photos — I never tried this plugin: https://github.com/ashisha/image.vim
Edit: it’s 10 years old and uses python2 and PIL, so it needs a bit dusting off, but with a bit of caring love, it should be able to run again.
You have invented “emacs -nw”
You misspelled Emacs
Oops, all vim!
EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!
in only + / - bilions of years!
what sort of honoric is et al, does it make you plural?
In case you’re not being sarcastic, et al is a shortening that means “among others” - usually authors of academic papers are clubbed together like this. In this context it is more like, “among other educational qualifications”
While that does make sense, I think I’ll stick to thinking they’re plural.
no no McS. et al., PhD is mf actual family name. Trying a bit too hard to get a great academic career.
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