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I watched oppenheimer in emacs, u watched it in imax, we are not the same

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nano just feels sluggish as soon as you know vim keybindings. Emacs is a bit overkill for some quck edits, but nano is just to basic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nano is a fantastic default editor for gui-focused distros. If you aren't a command line wizard, nano is a better default because it's a lot more straightforward.

That said, nano is incredibly limited and if you have any experience with vi/vim/nvim, it's the best solution full stop. It's so much faster and more powerful but hot damn is it unintuitive for noobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a nanoite who couldn't be bothered to learn editor commands, I switched to turbo, which is essentially a linux port of the DOS text editor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, interesting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was using vim for the first time the other day and I was running through the built in vimtutor. I got a call from a friend and they asked what I was up to, and I said I was doing a tutorial for a text editor. At that moment, I felt simultaneously very silly and very smart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By "as soon as you know" you mean "as soon as you have put those bindings to muscle memory". Knowing them isn't really enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, I'd say the same concept applies to using anything tech related these days. It'd be like if you "knew" where all of the keys on a keyboard layout that you don't normally use are located - you'd still need muscle memory to actually use it efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, again, I don't do much terminal text editing. I have an IDE. If I'm trying to help someone across the country 1000 miles away fix something on the machine I develop for, I'm going to give them instructions on something that will be incredibly easy to use. I don't want to have to explain why the arrow keys aren't working and why they have to use jkl; to navigate or explain how enter edit mode or how so save and exit. Keep it simple stupid.