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All of the old editors are horrible. Nano, vi, emacs... sure they might be conveniently placed, but are a pain to learn. This one is a vast improvement https:

by sfx77 4y ago

All of the old editors are horrible. Nano, vi, emacs... sure they might be conveniently placed, but are a pain to learn. This one is a vast improvement https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/

b112 4y ago
Wha?! Nothing matches the power of vi or emacs. Nothing. If you don't want the power, or don't need the tool, fine. I get that. But calling vi terrible, is like complaining that a sledgehammer is terrible, because you want to hang a picture, and that's all you have.
- sfx77 4y ago
  That's the thing. I want to hang a picture.
  - mickeyp 4y ago
    That is why you use Emacs. It has `M-x picture-mode` and its successor, `M-x artist-mode'.
    - sfx77 4y ago
      right. I have no idea what that is.
      - R0flcopt3r 4y ago
        It's a joke.
    - shiomiru 4y ago
      Or stay inside vi, and just filter your picture through the standard unix tool for hanging pictures.
  - palata 4y ago
    Have you tried Windows or macOS? They are really good at hanging pictures.
    - sfx77 4y ago
      I thought we established we're using sledgehammers for that?
      - palata 4y ago
        xD
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- wiseowise 4y ago
  Vi is not a sledgehammer, it’s more like laser cutter from dead space. It can both cut huge monsters and make laser cuts on your organs.
mbork_pl 4y ago
How is Nano an "old editor"? It was released just a bit more than 20 years ago...
- glandium 4y ago
  It's a clone of pico, which is 33 years old.
- piptastic 4y ago
  Probably because it was an emulation of pico, which started another 10 years before that. I started with pico and moved to nano.
npteljes 4y ago
I agree with you. The first UI I used on a computer was Volkov Commander, and maybe so, I'm really partial to mc and mcedit. Nano is tolerable, but vim, emacs are just so alien that I'll never touch them.