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I use it constantly, because I'm quicker making small edits with it than with vim. I would sorely miss it if it's not installed on a server.
by xrstf 10y ago
I use it constantly, because I'm quicker making small edits with it than with vim. I would sorely miss it if it's not installed on a server.
- baldfat 10y agoI hear this faster for small things but if you use vim I would say I can make changes in a small document twice as fast. They should have a new tag line: Nano the plain text editor for non-Vim maybe EMACS users?
- Already__Taken 10y agoThis is only true if you use vim at least once a week forever. Some people don't want to study a manual to change 1 config line. Call me crazy I know.
- draw_down 10y agoYeah, maybe I'm just weird, but I like it when the down-arrow key makes the cursor go down a line.
- philh 10y agoNot saying they don't exist, but I don't think I've ever encountered a vim instance where that didn't happen.
- Jtsummers 10y agoI recall many frustrating days in college when I first learned vim but not enough to configure it (or was to lazy to). The arrow keys inserted control characters in edit mode on the basic Linux install I had at the time and on the school's computers (circa 2000-2004). It was annoying. It turned me off to vim for a while, but emacs and I were a better fit anyways.
- sleepybrett 10y agoYeah, maybe I'm just weird, but modal editing is kind of a pain unless you do it every day. It's just a little too arcane for making a quick edit to a file in /etc. It's probably even more natural for me having grown up in the shadow of the University of Washington, so PINE was the popular email client and PICO was it's editor. Don't get me wrong, I've watched Vim power users do amazing things in that editor but those people are not me and I can't find a good reason to climb that particular mountain.
- baldfat 10y agoarrows work in vim as default since 2000???
- baldfat 10y agovim file_foo press i for interactive and make changes then press :wq :) I have that embedded in my brain after all these years.
- gargravarr 10y agoYou forgot ESC after making changes ;) nano file_foo make changes ctrl-O-Enter - save ctrl-X-Enter - exit Simpler, I think?
- eximius 10y agoDon't even need the ^O, it asks if you want to save on exit if there are modifications.
- BillinghamJ 10y agoMany many people who need to occasionally edit text in a terminal don't know how to use Vim OR Emacs.