me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.
Emacs has a menu, it’s not exactly hard. F10 to open the menu in text mode
I don’t get why there’s so much prejudice towards nano users in the Linux community, people act like nano is useless but it performs its job well, and it does it without being large or overly complicated.
My computer my choice
There is a right choice and you know it. Stop bring silly and say it out loud!
(Duck and cover, flame war!)
Helix:
Micro for the win
I use Nano with the CUA keybindings because screw it, modal editors are too slow for me
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Brain size for neovim???
the templates for memes are free on the internet.
I have over 83 templates.
micro > *
That greate than sign and the name clashes.
micro > nano. :p
I can get onboard with that!
You should all try fresh (the editor)…
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.
I’m just gonna do :shower
vim guy, emacs guy look big brain. me brain smol. me bathe yesterday, thank you.
Vim users: “I feel bad for you”
Nano users: “I don’t think about you at all”
OP suggests otherwise.
Oh yeah? Well this says otherwise.
Nano users :
Me no think
Nano users have more important things to think about, saying this as an nvim user
yeah, like where the “any” key is on their keyboard
I think it’s more likely the opposite.
I do appreciate this in nano. It helps me complete the new container config occasionally required to install vim.
Hey, what’s the benefit in using vim with containers? I usually just apt install and get on with it.
I’m team nano, I’m not smart enough to use the other two and for whenever I need to open a text file in terminal only environment once every year I can remember how to navigate nano. So I’ll keep using nano.
It has nothing to do with intelligence. vi and emacs are just rote memorization and also endless installation of plugins and configuration. They are slow to pick up, but very powerful and also ergonomic once you know what to do.
A modern GUI like CSCode is faster to pickup and immediately very powerful.
A good emacs or vim configuration tailored to your needs can stay with you for decades. It’s stable, reliable, and does everything already. vim has released less than one point update per year for more than 2 years. During that time Sublime and VSCode had dozens, if not hundreds.
For most people the choice of editor doesn’t make a huge difference. They spend far more time reading than writing code.
Nano is the right choice for you.
I use emacs but it’s only convenient to me with a lot of custom stuff on top. Vanilla emacs tho, hell no.
neovim user (inside zellij) and same. More of a full blown IDE than an editor.
Also for the keybind memory impaired like myself:
Yep, I’ve gradually gone from using vim motions in VSCode to using Neovim with basically all the functionality I need for backend (.NET and TypeScript) and infrastructure work.
There are still some things I have to rebuild some muscle memory for, but it’s been great. I haven’t made it to zellij yet but that’s the next step.
Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.
Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.
CTRL-K,K,K…
That’s racist
Omega-level container brain
Never ceases to amaze me how people get so exercised over a text editor.
I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.
Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.
So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.
This has been a lighthearted fake rivalry for as long as these text editors have existed.
That’s because we all know which is the obvious superior text editor.
Windows 11 Notepad.
The AI helps me corrupt my .txt faster.
Helix, the true choice among champions.
Neovim-HEAD or you’re a boomer.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if the memes give outsiders the impression that there is a real text editor war.
It’s not a war, war implies a fight, it’s a one sided massacre.
I’d even say as long as text editors have existed at all
Most old ones - older than vi - are terrible. I have to sometimes use the IBM mainframe editor at work. It is terrible.
So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best,
Gnome sucks!
Ducks and runs away
Gnome is fine if it works the way you do.
Bullshit, gedit is great
How long before gedit depends on systemd??
So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and
dumping on Windows.why it is nanoFTFY. :P
X11 is already dead and cremated
seriously . wayland is hot dumpster sludge
the ootb audio drivers on my thinkpad running fedora sound better than my work windows laptop
Real answer: those things matter to me because a quick frictionless experience very heavily dependant on muscle memory really helps with my ADHD. Laggy interfaces, having to hold left key for several seconds, and similar issues quickly pull my out of my train of thought.
It’s not about shaving 2 minutes off my day, it’s about not interrupting the flow.
when nerds fight, it’s the text editors that suffer
Most tradespeople will have favoured tools. It might be for woodworking, plumbing, electrics, plastering or writing code.
There’s little point in being tribal about it, but conversations will happen.
Because there is only one objectively right answer. Anyone who use anything else is no true unix user.
You mean a Rubik’s cube.
nano gang represent😎
I can use Vim, it was the choice for years. But I actually like using nano because it’s what I need and all I need.
I actually prefer micro
