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Just use nano if you don't want its shortcuts or even emacs. You don't have to use any predefined shortcuts in emacs. Everything is reconfigurable. The main sel
by kronos29296 9y ago
Just use nano if you don't want its shortcuts or even emacs. You don't have to use any predefined shortcuts in emacs. Everything is reconfigurable. The main selling point of vim is its shortcuts and modal editing. If it is not for you there dozens of great text editors that do a good job of just editing text compared to Atom.
- tombh 9y agoHow do I get autocompletion, linting, gitgutter, and so on in Nano? Emacs is another great editor for sure, but slightly heavier weight than Vim, so I've just invested in that. There is no other editor that even comes close to being as lightweight and extensible as Vim (or Emacs). Whatsmore I absolutely love my editor being in a tmux pane. This is an unprecedented paradigm, that people should't have to miss out on just because of Normal Mode's learning curve.
- kronos29296 9y agoIf you put it like that you only have emacs left. Instead of an editor in a tmux pane you a shell in the editor. But Emacs is hardly lightweight. Compared to Atom though even something as heavy Spacemacs in emacs is much better.
- pjmlp 9y ago> There is no other editor that even comes close to being as lightweight and extensible as Vim (or Emacs). Sure there is, just not the free type so many people rather have. Here is one example, almost as old as Windows (since 3.x days), https://www.slickedit.com https://www.slickedit.com
- kronos29296 9y agoYou would have to extend it yourself which others do for me with plugins in vim or emacs.
- pjmlp 9y agoThere are also people doing plugins for it.