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Who makes this rule? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think it is required.
Nano for me
A real war is right here. Never have an ending. The end is nigh.
+1 Nano
Nano is OK, but I also like to install the Joe editor. Why? Because it has a Wordstar-like flavor called jstar, which reminds me of writing Z80 assembly code and documentation on a 4 MHz CP/M system with no hard drive and two floppy drives (the old kind of floppy that actually flopped in your hand) and 32 MB of memory. It's not a true Wordstar clone, because some of the commands are different. But by now I've pretty much forgotten the differences. Wordstar was surprisingly usable for its day. Back then you could edit the EPROM containing the BIOS routines, if you didn't like something. A lot of the "BIOS" was on the boot floppy, but as time went on, more of it got put in the EPROM. The whole setup was faster than my typing speed, though, which is still pretty much the limiting factor.
Not a fan of vim, i use remote vscode
Use
viwhen I have to, otherwise Visual Studio Codeintellij + vim plugin
nano is more than enough for editing configs
Aren't you kinda' old to be a Rookey?
I remember using Wordstar. You could tell who really knew Wordstar by whether they hid the hints bar that showed the CTRL character commands.
Heck, no. Retired in 2006, but still kicking. And I have to amuse myself somehow.
lol VIM is way ahead of Nano in just about every aspect. VIM +1
both
Whoa, a fellow joe user. I thought I was the only one.
On my own servers, I use joe. I do not remember why I settled on joe, but I've used it for probably 25 years so it just feels like home. I remember running joe even on ms-dos in the 1990's, but back then it was just called 'j' i believe.
However, on other peoples system I am just fine using vi, emacs, pico or nano, whatever is the default. I realized a loooong time ago that when the majority of the work you do involves text, knowing how to use the text editor is a must so I simply adapted to the most common ones.
Default is nano for me but both are nice and have value.
Windows on the otherhand is pretty dogshit.
+1 nano !
Vim!
Anyone who doesn't want Edge as their default browser.
nano ftw!
Ninite.com is not required for Windows installations, nor is it needed to install alternate browsers. There are many ways to install a different browser. You can simply download and install the browser you want. Ninite.com may be Timbo's Step 1, but it is not everyone's Step 1.
Timbo knew all that.
Back when I still noob How do you using vim without googling it first hehe, well nano on the hand is self explanatory
Emacs!
cat <file>copy the entire PuTTY screen to Notepad, possibly scrolling back thousands of lines
make changes in Notepad
paste the entire file back with
echoon especially crappy servers with high latency, this is often faster than using any remote editor at all
Nano
Nano
vim ftw!!
nano
if possible: nano
but also work with vim
Have you guys checked out ninite? It's just a silent installer so you can install a few necessary programs quickly. You could have said "I use chocolatey or winget.", etc. Going to 10 different sites and clicking through installers? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Edit: I'm guessing language difference, but "required" in the sense that some people require coffee in the morning before they can function...