• SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    For almost all users, especially beginners, nano is just simpler faster and better. A lot of distributions are bundling it, and I am finding indeed systems without vim at all.

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        1 year ago

        Man I tried to use vi once because I started with vim and wanted to see what all it was before, and holy shit vim really is IMPROVED

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been using nano for 10+ years. Found micro and it is superior. Had to alias nano so that it opens micro instead, though. Hard to break such habits.

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            I could see that if you’re more skilled at something like vim.

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              I like nano, the ctrl-x is so easy to remember I hate having to fumble through a man page to try to conjure up the vague memory of a :q-whatever-combo

              Edit: micro is ctrl-s then ctrl-q. Guess thats nice too… guess I can give it another shot

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              Ok i think i overeacted. I couldn’t figure out how to exit it, so i assumed it was like vim. Needed to exit Termux manually (which i hate) but the ctrl+s & q is easy to remember. Will consider it another option to remember like cat and bat

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                1 year ago

                Ah, gotcha. Yeah the keybindings are very sensible especially for people coming from Windows. I do think it’s better than Nano for newcomers.

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        I’m surprised there aren’t more distros that come packaged with it. If someone’s used a graphical text editor in the past decade, then they know how to use micro. The only distro I know of that has it by default is Garuda.