@Skullgrid__dup_11231@lemmy.world
why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom.
2026-03-05 17:01 UTC
Replies (40)
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@ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2026-03-05 17:26
I do appreciate this in nano. It helps me complete the new container config occasionally required to install vim.
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@MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 17:39
JOE is over in hospice care
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@bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 17:39
I pressed 6 while holding shift, then x. But it just typed ^x in my file. Maybe I need to swap black and white as I type them, but I don’t know how to do that.
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@hedders@fedia.io 2026-03-05 17:35
Never ceases to amaze me how people get so exercised over a text editor.
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@Rhaedas@fedia.io 2026-03-05 17:43
I love how people fight over what's the better editor. I just use whatever makes sense for the time, and it's not always the same one. But if you're happy with just one of them and can make it work for you in any situation, then you do you. That's the point of Linux, or so I thought.
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@fartsparkles@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 18:07
micro enters the chat. Static, portable binary with no dependencies. Out of the box: Syntax highlighting Multi-line cursors like Sublime Text Mouse support Splits and tabs Diff gutter Copy and paste with system clipboard Cross-platform Sane key binds (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-x, etc) Plugin system And much much more I have nothing to do with the project but this binary is the absolute best. curl or wget to any host and away you go with effectively a Sublime Text / VSCode like in the terminal. It’s baffling it’s not more well known and not installed by default on major distros.
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@MehBlah__dup_9194@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 18:41
The image is misleading. The brain sizes represent the amount of grey matter it takes to operate the editor. The nano guy has plenty of brain power left over for things like hygiene, breathing and basic reasoning.
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@AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2026-03-05 18:49
I really dont care what editor you use, ive never used emacs, nano is disgusting and i really like vim but it could be the exact opposite for you and i wouldnt care.
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@dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-03-05 18:52
does anyone still use emacs? honest question.
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@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2026-03-05 19:03
Kate users:
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-03-05 19:06
Just use ed. Ctrl+C. Easy.
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@rozodru@piefed.world 2026-03-05 19:22
Nano or as I like to call it “The Sudo Editor”
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@m33@lemmy.zip 2026-03-05 19:23
Meanwhile in an alternate universe, two people argue about edit vs edlin… 😆
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@Thorry@feddit.org 2026-03-05 19:24
Pico gang rise up!
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@MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 19:37
Vim users: “I feel bad for you” Nano users: “I don’t think about you at all”
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@Dave@lemmy.nz 2026-03-05 19:49
Nano say so at bottom but so does vim if it thinks you’re trying to exit.
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@callyral@pawb.social 2026-03-05 20:20
I use Helix btw
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@parzival@lemmy.org 2026-03-05 20:28
But… Micro is better
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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2026-03-05 20:37
I mean, nano is cool I guess. But just today my colleague asked what parameter add to a configuration file. He asked me should it be before or after this line? I told him before, he added it after. He had to select the line with the mouse, copy the text, go above, paste it, go back and delete the line character by character. I mean, not too bad; but I was feeling very bad while seeing it happen.
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@cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-05 21:06
nano is just a text editor, I use it as a text editor, it has keybindings on screen by default, no need to config or memorise, why bother? (for text editing, not whatever people use vim or emacs for)
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@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 22:25
That has to come from someone who doesn’t know the bliss of micro
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@eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 23:19
I use micro. It’s 1000x better.
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@PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 23:29
Nano is trash. micro
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@vaderaj@lemmy.world 2026-03-05 23:52
Gedit users be like
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@phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-03-06 00:08
Ed users are vim lusers on steroids.
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@smh@slrpnk.net 2026-03-06 00:09
I love nano. I used to do tech support for a Linux-based content management system (before SAaS take took off)… The customer sysadmins were sometimes whichever engineer was volun-told to do it, so competency varied wildly. I helped mostly with installs. This might be the poor newbie sysadmin’s first time on the command line. Nano was my go-to suggestion for editing config files–all the commands are right there! Much less intimidating than vi or emacs for a newbie.
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@neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-06 00:28
When I was first learning how to code I was working on some beginner project and couldn’t figure it out. I asked a friend who knew a few things what I was doing wrong and he hopped on my computer, fixed the code then opened it in vim and told me my project wasn’t working because of whatever text editor I was using (I think sublime). So for like a year I hardly learned how to code but I got pretty dang good with vim.
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@Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-06 00:35
Some real talk. Can we just include the 4 most popular text editors on basic systems?? Like i wanna scream when there isnt my text editor installed on a lightweight distro. Vi Emacs Micro Nano For context, Debian ships with nano and vi Openwrt only ships with nano Like cant we just include small editors. In a perfect world i would want neovim installed. But i understand its larger and has alot more dependency’s. So having VI isnt as good but im willing to be reasonable. JUST INCLUDE VI the reason i learned vim is because VI is installed by default on almost every distro. Im tempted to try emacs tho
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@RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2026-03-06 00:54
I like micro
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@Grass@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-06 02:47
I used some distro with vim back in the day and I just kept using it. I lose my shit when I use something with just nano and my muscle memory tries to do a vim thing.
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@Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-06 05:28
Fortunately, every computer comes equipped with an “exit editor” button. It’s on the back, attached to the power supply unit. You just flick the switch. Exits every editor known to humanity. /j
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-03-06 10:14
Lol, you losers don’t use ed to edit your files?
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@rosco385@lemmy.wtf 2026-03-06 10:50
nano gang represent😎
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@Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 14:10
I no understand nano. I hate key combinations
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@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 14:21
I first ran into nano when I gave Gentoo a try. I had to edit a few config files, so I ran vi… no vi. Emacs? No Emacs. Well, shit, what am I supposed to do? So I went back a bit and read more carefully, apparently there was a thing called nano. So I ran that. Ew. It was a clone of an old DOS editor of all things. What kind of lunatic had ported that? Anyway I managed to do my edits with it, added normal editors to the system and was on my way. It was also the last time I used it.
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@flango@lemmy.eco.br 2026-03-06 17:19
Emacs evil mode enters the chat
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@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2026-03-06 17:26
nano is usually built in. Adding another one is just redundant if all you’re using it for is editing an occasional config file. Honestly never understood the hate for it. Who cares? Petty, stupid, nerd-wars over little crap like a text editor is the reason average people don’t even consider linux.
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@Francislewwis@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 18:23
Honestly nano is perfect for quick edits. Vim and Emacs are powerful, but sometimes you just want to open a config file, change one line, and exit without fighting the editor. 😄
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@bilb@lemmy.ml 2026-03-06 18:55
Linux text editor discourse has been baffling to me for decades now. I don’t care which you use, and I care even less about why.
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@ICastFist@programming.dev 2026-03-06 19:15
Emacs is a table saw, vim is a chainsaw, nano is a scissor. Every problem those 3 solve is a differently sized single sheet of paper.