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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What's so great on vim for the average Joe which isn't offered by nano?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reaching over to CTRL every time you want to copy some text, delete a word, delete the next character or perform any other basic edit starts to take a toll on your hands after 20 minutes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • Teleportation: the cursor can be teleport to any line without pressing down key multiple times...

  • Macro: for repeating a sequence of inputs multiple times...

  • Tabs: nano can't open multiple files at once i believe...

  • Split screen(horizontal and vertical)

  • Themes and plugins

These are a few that comes to mind...

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

Yeah, for all of those things, there's Micro.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, but the person asked comparing to nano...

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

Vim has things like copy and paste, including being able to highlight text, search and replace, and I find its commands a lot less clunky than Nano's. I am not a software developer or a sysadmin, just someone who uses Linux for fun. All of this stuff works without having X or Wayland running too.

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