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The author assumes that disregard of nano as inferior and not up to the daily task is somehow "elitist". It reads as though the author has been personally affli
by junon 6y ago
The author assumes that disregard of nano as inferior and not up to the daily task is somehow "elitist". It reads as though the author has been personally afflicted by its lack of use, which seems like a strange stance to hold.
I'm not required to like, laud, or advocate for every piece of software. Conversely, I'm allowed to not like things as well.
I didn't know it had these features, sure. But... so what? I don't use nano, I don't like when things default to it as an editor, and I'd rather not have it on my system because it's just extra bytes used up on my disk.
If that makes me elitist, then so be it.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> I don't like when things default to it as an editor I strongly favour Vim myself, but I don't blame anyone for using Nano as a default editor. If the goal is to make a program (or distro) as approachable as possible then Nano is a sensible choice, much more so than Vim or Emacs.
- junon 6y agoSure, I never argued against that.
- Jiocus 6y ago> I don't like when things default to it as an editor Then, let things know what editor you prefer; $ export EDITOR='vi'
- junon 6y agoWhat makes you think I don't do this?
- iruoy 6y ago> I'd rather not have it on my system because it's just extra bytes used up on my disk I'm assuming you're talking about your development system/workstation. Why would 2MB matter? It has no dependencies that aren't installed by default in every distro.
- junon 6y agoBecause I don't like having cruft. It's simple.