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I used to be a nano user but now whenever I want to use a terminal text editor I will almost always use micro as it has built in support for most languages. ht
by tristanbvk 4y ago
I used to be a nano user but now whenever I want to use a terminal text editor I will almost always use micro as it has built in support for most languages.
https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
- VaxWithSex 4y agoCame here to write this, you beat me to it.
- fifilura 4y agoI got stuck with jed https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ as my terminal editor after getting too used to the emacs shortcuts but when emacs -nw became too heavy. Does anyone else use this? (To be fair I am transitioning to vim now that my emacs muscle memory is waning, and the rate of jed bugfixes likewise).
- zimpenfish 4y agoI had a period where I was using jed because I was doing stuff with s-lang (mostly Lynx) and using slrn to read news. But then I drifted into the vi/vims because trying to get jed installed everywhere was a pain.
- nivertech 4y agonano is usually installed by default
- petre 4y agoVi is fortunately present on just about every unix-like system and in busybox. Typing "v" in the pager and getting thrown into nano always prompts me to installing vim and changing the default editor. When I got into Linux there was no nano, only vi and ed. Pico came later with the Pine e-mail client.
- sbuk 4y ago> "Pico came later with the Pine e-mail client" Nope. GNU Nano, like a lot of the early GNU utilities, emulates Pico. I was using Pico/Pine around 1994/95 on UNIX workstations, and Pico was the default editor.
- petre 4y agoPico came later than vi/ed. I know nano is a pico clone which first appeared in '99 or so.
- threatofrain 4y agoAlso checkout Helix for those who want Vim with nice defaults (like LSP). https://helix-editor.com https://helix-editor.com https://github.com/helix-editor/helix https://github.com/helix-editor/helix