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nano
i m nano guy , it s more simple
vim all the way.
Nano is evil. I have extreme hatred for distributions that make it the default. It always takes me ages to figure out how to quit it, which is ironic as that's the complaint most people level at vi!
nano nano
both
nano all the way
Correct answer is VIM or NeoVIM.
However if you are not feeling the hipster vibe, VScode will do.
In the end nano works fine to just edit server config.
But for coding, certianly VIM or VScode , or the usual: Sublime, Atom, notepad++, PHPstorm and the other jetbrains products. Visual studio (regular), etc.
What matter is that you should be fast with it.
Nano is more simple to use for me. Everytime I want to do something in vim, I have to search the net. Therefore nano ftw
only vim , No Nano
Vim period.
You can't beat vim with its persistent undo history, marks, saved sessions, color syntax highlighting, key-mapping, shortcuts, plugins and much more.
Right. They just needs to memorize these sequences:
Esc+ZZ - save and quit
Esc+ZQ - quit without saving
Easier than nano (ctrl+x+confirmation dialog...)
90% of time I need to use editor via SSH is when I need minor changes on docker-compose.yml, so nano. Unless for whatever reason nano fucks up my copy-paste, in which case I use vim. It never messes up input from copy-paste.
I take the time to learn whatever program the distribution has as default for the text editor, so all of them?
Nano until I needed lot of feature available ONLY on vim
https://vim.rtorr.com/
Part of my standard setup procedure:
vim
.bashrc:Or even just shift-ZZ
Nano. Vim is clearly possessed.
vim for me.
As a long time pico user converted to vi, I'd say vi now even for quick editing. For anything more complex I use a Windows editor not vim (don't hate me).
And make sure you can use basic vi as implemented in busybox, sometimes it's all you can have.
You must drink some special potions to be able to switch between them, my muscle memory took ages to change from <ctrl>X to <shift>ZZ, like @yoursunny I remove nano to stop myself regressing.
Edit: darned pointy brackets in markdown
I always use vi. Will remove nano whenever see it.
emacs
Years and years ago, I used to use emacs.
I then had a stint when I was doing work on a LOT of customer SunOS 4 machines, pretty much a vanilla install plus their application, and I most definitely was not allowed to install anything crazy like "open sores" software.
Learning vi was a bit of a baptism of fire, but honestly it only takes a couple of hours learning the basic keys (h,j,k,l for motion or cursor keys, w,b for word navigation i,a,o for adding text and esc to exit) and you can do pretty much anything else you want, maybe just a bit slowly. Then over time, throw in a / for search, x for delete char, d+movement for bigger delete, c+movement for replace, prefixing things with numbers and you already know basically everything you need for 99% of your tasks.
If you use Windows, then gvim is actually pretty good, and you can use the standard windows shortcuts as well as vim shortcuts without even thinking about context switching with other apps.
Honestly, just try it. After a day or two with just the bare minimum, you find you're already navigating around the document quicker than using a mouse. At that point, you won't want to go back.
nano is simple. I don't need to take care of stateful stuffs.
nano
My terminal is open since 2011, can someone please let me know how to close vim?
vim
make a poll
+1 nano
vim enforces massive cognitive load, while nano KISS'ing. Of course real man just edit file in hex mode with xxd.
I am not masochistic, so mostly nano.
No, I lied. It's just nano.