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I used vi, but I realized it has a bunch of really powerful stuff I don't need. I have tr, sed, awk and grep for those things can heck, I have a whole shell bui
by Aloha 5y ago
I used vi, but I realized it has a bunch of really powerful stuff I don't need. I have tr, sed, awk and grep for those things can heck, I have a whole shell built just for text processing.
Nano (and before it, pico) work better for me in 80% of use cases where I need to just edit text.
On windows I can use notepad++, which is probably the best win32 text editor in existence, bar none. Between it's plug-ins, and powershell (albeit with a hammer like coaxing), it's just about as powerful as the Unix environment.
- marklgr 5y agoI also like and use tools like sed and awk; using the vim internal tools are very easy to learn if you come from there, and they have the advantage of being better suited for working with whole buffer (multilines, paragraphs etc.), instead of on a line-by-line basis. I believe vim is a great editor for the kind of people who like sed, awk, and working from/with the shell, since it's pretty much the same culture.