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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago
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  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using nano instead of micro which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.

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      When you help manage thousands of servers with vim and nano already installed, it’s just faster to use one of those than installing something else nearly ever single time.

      I prefer nano for quick edits of small files, but vim for hunting down things in larger files.

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        Or you can preinstall micro like you preinstall everything else 😅

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          I’m not that high on the totem pole unfortunately

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      Holy cow. You can use your mouse with micro. Amazing.

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        You can have mouse support with nano. Alt-m toggles it on or off.

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          Oh wow. Weird that it defaults to off.

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            You can change that in the nanorc along with changing key binds, colors, and the like.

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        And all the shortcuts are SANE, not the weird thing of nano

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      I’ve discovered it just a few days ago and now use it on all my machines

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