Vim actually IS easy to use once you get the hang of it, plus more comfortable and efficient.
Nanos just an excuse for lazyness, cmv.
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I'll say that I find easier to exit vim that to exit nano.
I don't know what ^ means. I just start pressing special keys until it doesn't the thing
CTRL
Get'er Robbie she's under the desk!
Ohh look! a sad scripter editing his tiny little script on a terminal window. How cute.
Nano isn't even that simple. Ctrl+X to quit? I guess if you use phonetic sounds to figure out how to exit a program. At least Vim uses the idea of "use what the words start with."
I personally use micro in the terminal, and Kate if I want a GUI to write. Vim and Emacs are fine for those who want it, I have no stakes in the editor wars beyond "I just want my program to do what I want, and I want it to be simple to learn."
Nano has a cheat sheet at the bottom of the screen at all times
Meanwhile I can just use the same shortcuts every other program made in the last 40 years uses. Ctrl+Q to quit, Ctrl+S to save, Ctrl+Z for undo. If I wanted to consult a cheatsheet to relearn keyboard shortcuts, I'll use vim and emacs.
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Hey now we don't denigrate vim and nano users. For the nano users, denigrate means to put down.
and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus
If I'm doing quick txt editing nano is great and what I know I can't figure vim out for the live of me
The best text editor is ‘$EDITOR’.
I think you mean "$EDITOR". Gotta have that variable expansion.
Not necessarily! I always run ln -s '/usr/bin/$EDITOR' $(which $EDITOR) after a fresh install, so I have a valid executable on the path called $EDITOR.
Of course, then I have to make sure to add export EDITOR=\$EDITOR to my .bashrc. (Obviously.)
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Nano is notepad, but with worse mouse integration. It's Vim/Emacs without any of the features. It's the worst of both worlds
If you want ease, just use a GUI notepad. If you want performance boosts, suck it up and learn Emacs or Neovim
Heaven forbid I want to use an intuitive, simple, terminal based text editor when I ssh into one of my boxes.
But here's the real kicker. Why do people like you give two shits what text editor other people use?
What if you want ease on a terminal?
Why would you use a mouse in a console editor? Most of the time, if you're using Nano, it's because you're not in a GUI environment.