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for everything else, there’s sublime.
If you like Sublime, you’re gonna love Micro.
I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have
viinstalled, but I’ve seen a few withoutnano.vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
edwas so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
viand gettingvimis just a pleasant surprise :)
What is Again! ? Never heard of that text editor
Still don’t like it.
Repeat as necessary.
Why would I subject myself to unnecessary suffering?
One must imagine you happy
qa Ienjoy<ESC>q 200@a
U guys are using terminal? Like barbarians?
Yes.
Much prefer Mirco thank you very much.
alias vim=“nano”
alias vim=nvim
alias vi=nvim
alias nano=nvim
alias emacs=nvim
alias code=nvimexport EDITOR=nvim
export VISUAL=nvim
export PAGER=nvimYou forgot
alias v=nvim
Neovim >
The only Dad advice you nerds need:
mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.
I don’t even run arch, btw.
I remember when the GNOME file manager was this kind of interesting hybrid that used MC for the backend. The one thing I liked about it was that it could be docked in Window Maker. Yep I was using a Dock in GNOME waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before most GNOME users.
Nowadays it’s still possible to replicate my old Window Maker desktop in XFCE.
Ok, let’s try that
FIrst
Ok, that is already more storage space than openwrt needs to run a full linux distro
root@proxmox:~# mc mytestfile.txtEsscuse me, the fuck is this !?
You’re looking at the full mc package rather than just mcedit. Even then, Midnight Commander is absolutely worth that whopping 7.9MB of space it takes for all the functionality it provides.
Openwrt is not an example to use to compate against a package size, as it’s target built to fit into small firmware storage spaces on all sorts of random hardware. That’s comparing existential philosophy with oranges.
Would you download a car?
I’m a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think ‘dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out’
Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.
“how the fuck do I use you?”
then go back to nano
repeat.
Have you tried micro? Nano but better.
Accurate. The keyboard shortcuts just make sense and it’s full of features from this millennia. Like control click for multi cursor, automatic syntax highlighting, and automatic lint indicators.
Have you tried GUI text editors? They’re like the CLI ones, just from this millennium. We’re no longer etching runes into rocks any more either.
X forwarding is too much work
Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
No.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.
Learn the difference between a word processor and a text editor.
Guess you’re not up on your memes. Frightfully sorry for responding to what I assumed was a meme answer with a meme answer.
I personally prefer running wordpad with WINE, as I can’t afford an office subscription.
Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.
Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.
CLI text editors have their specific use cases. For all other cases GUI ones (Kate, VSCode,…) exist.
CLI text editors have their specific use cases.
Couldn’t agree more. My use cases tend to be:
- text editor
- note taking
- IDE
- config editor
- log viewer
- adhoc data prep
- json viewer
EMACS users sometimes add web browser and email client, among other things but, that’s a bit further than I go. The perf for either of the main two blows nearly any GUI editor out of the water and being able to pipe stdout/stderr to them is just the wonderful cherry on top.
I refuse to use any GUI until people stop pronouncing it as gooey.
“Graphical UI” it is
Well now I’m going to pronounce it gooey even harder!
The only reason why I use Nano is so I can act like DankPods while saying it.
Na-no
na-no
If you don’t like Vim you should try vis.
but modal editing is exactly what I don’t like about vim
Genuinely took most of my notes in college on vim, when you get good it’s just faster.
I’m sure someone already made a graph plotting the hours wasted learning vs the seconds gained not moving your mouse.
Nice.
I’ve been using Vim daily for about 20 years, it saves me 30 minutes at a time regularly.
I’m approaching break-even on the learning curve!
I’m kidding…mostly.
This. If it was your sole tool for daily tasks it makes sense, once a month to edit a config file…not so much.
When I started working we had HP Unix Silicon Graphics systems, VI was our only text editor…so I have some commands as muscle memory. The rest of commands I open my tractor feed help printout from 30 years ago
I like evil/spacemacs because I can get my vim fix virtually, because emacs from a software engineering perspective is beautiful!
What about notepad++ under wine?
I’m trying… I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd ringo.
Notepadqq is basically an exact clone of Notepad++ but native on Linux.
I used it for a good while before recently switching to Kate.
Haven’t heard about Notepadqq. How different is it from Kate?
Pretty much just a different GUI, If you ever used Notepad++ it’s the same as that.
In the meantime I’m happy with Kate.
Aw, I’m sure she’s happy with you too . ❤️
She plays “Wipeout” on the drums
The squirrels and the birds come
Gather around to sing the guitar
Oh, I… Have you got nothing to say?I knew she was cheating on me
I’m too used to using notepad++ that I would rather use Kate than learn how to properly use vi(m).
Geany feels more like Notepad++ than Kate does.
