Nano Or Vim? Which Terminal Text Editor Should You Use?

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It is important for Linux users to be comfortable using a terminal-based text editor like GNU Nano or Vim, because sometimes you are going to have to edit configuration files without being in a graphical environment. But which terminal text editor is the right one for you?
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@SkyyySi 2 жыл бұрын

I expected this video to just start with you saying "Vim." then reading your pateron names lol

@theodore2583 2 жыл бұрын

"Vim," while patreon names scroll over and over and DT plays Trombone for 19 minutes.

@antonycoulson9916 2 жыл бұрын

Made me chuckle :)

@MichaelMantion 2 жыл бұрын

I thought he might say "Emacs" then thank the producers.

@yoavnavott 2 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMantion except emacs isn't a terminal based editor.

@gogogogogogogogogogog9 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@TangoIndiaMike144 2 жыл бұрын

As a relatively long time vim user, I have learned to stay away from conversations like these. I use Arch btw

@altimmons 2 жыл бұрын

“I use arch btw” you could have just said that

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

Stop using it instead use gentoo

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

@@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload Arch isnt just a meme. It is a damn fine distro.

@ubbeus 2 жыл бұрын

”I have learned to stay away…” obviously not. ;)

@TangoIndiaMike144 2 жыл бұрын

@@ubbeus Just an excuse to let everyone know I use Arch ;)

@Gelo2000origami 2 жыл бұрын

I used nano for a few months until I forced myself to learn vim. Now I prefer vim, but it's good to know the basics of both just in case a certain machine doesn't have your preference

@ericks4774 2 жыл бұрын

That's good but you can install it if a machine doesn't have it

@user-yz7fr6kd7y 11 ай бұрын

@@ericks4774 not always

@Anthyoine-qk8fj 9 ай бұрын

@@user-yz7fr6kd7yyea my school wants us to use nano so it shits the bed when u try to use like gedit or vim

@pixel7038 2 жыл бұрын

Most who don’t know the diff: vim vs emacs? Reality: bruh….vim vs nano

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

Vim vs nano is ofs...

@auroradraco9974 2 жыл бұрын

Vim vs Nano is a comparison that makes sense. Vim vs Emacs is comparing a whole OS to a text editor

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

@@auroradraco9974 its not an OS its a complete productivity suit

@auroradraco9974 2 жыл бұрын

@@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload I can accept that, yes

@codegeek98 2 жыл бұрын

I actually know someone IRL who uses emacs and it freaks me out every time I remember it, since I can barely learn Vi…

@almosthelpless9374 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's worth learning Vim if you do a lot of text editing. I'm a software engineer, so learning Vim keybindings is worth the investment. If you don't do a lot of text editing (other than word processing) I'd just stick with Nano unless you're willing to accept the learning curve of Vim.

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@VittoIB 2 жыл бұрын

I'm an English teacher, and the learning curve has been worth it.

@lotekchapra 2 жыл бұрын

Sick, this is basically the argument I was looking for. I haven't seen the need to move past nano. I edit and create text files on the reg but this is my hobby not my job.

@doburu4835 2 жыл бұрын

@@lotekchapra micro is more powerful and easier to get used to if you like nano.

@popovanatoliy4736 2 жыл бұрын

micro is better. i use nvim btw.

@MmmBopsPops 2 жыл бұрын

It's pronounced "pico" as in 1/1000 of a nano. "Peek-O"

@yash1152 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, i was thinking same.

@animegamer3336 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at the thumbnail my immediate thought was *Both , Both are great*

@QDSGames 2 жыл бұрын

Sure, depends on what you want to do. I have both installed.

@hoterychannel 2 жыл бұрын

I personally like nano, but everybody should be familiar with vi, because often, in some basic environment, like some openwrt, docker containers, or any limited environment, vi 100% already available, but if we can install something -yeah, nano or vim or ...

@Gepeto213 2 жыл бұрын

I use both depending on what kind of stuff I am willing to do. But many times I end up with vim just because there's many more that can be achieved quickly with it. Thanks for this video DT!

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

I use emacs for mu4e, after himalaya 1.0 I will stop using emacs or use rarely

@snoobab_86 2 жыл бұрын

No linux channel is complete without a monitor running cmatrix in the background. I have not been brave enough to give VIM a go yet. For my basic needs NANO is more than sufficient. BUT i can see that VIM must be great for coding in the terminal. All the stuff you shown must give you next level powers when you need to edit code.

@micaiahflores1592 2 жыл бұрын

I am very comfortable with Nano I don’t care for vim or Emacs because I’m a relatively basic user and nano is fine

@notalinuxguruguy8063 2 жыл бұрын

I can see that vim would be good for a coder and such, but for people like you and me, nano works fine. At first some of the commands were awkward, but now it is easy. I'm sure vim users can say the same as well. It's all what you get used to using. But if I ever have a situation (hard to imagine what that might be) when I need to actually insert numbers in a file, I'll know what text editor can do it! ;)

@notalinuxguruguy8063 2 жыл бұрын

Also, I believe I've only run into one distro that didn't have nano installed out of the box. Vim, on the other hand . . .

@vorrnth8734 2 жыл бұрын

@@notalinuxguruguy8063 vi is always installed.

@notalinuxguruguy8063 2 жыл бұрын

@@vorrnth8734 Thanks for the info. I checked my installations: Neptune OS, Lubuntu, and Salient OS, and all three are installed on all three distros except vi isn't installed on Salient. Go figure. :) (Note: I may have installed vim on Neptune, due to watching one of DT's other videos and deciding to go through the tutorial, I don't recall whether I installed it or it was already there, but I know I didn't install vi.)

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

@@LesterFernandezIO Ive used vim on an off for years ut i still use the arrow keys. I never did like the letter keys for navigation even in games.

@dacritter8397 2 жыл бұрын

I use both regularly. Vim is my go to for just about everything because I'm old and learned ex/vi decades ago, but something quick and dirty over ssh or whatever, usually nano is available bang bang done.

@dhyaneeshanand5648 2 жыл бұрын

your not old , you're wise :D , I wish i can have your wisdom

@0xDEAD_Inside 2 жыл бұрын

@@dhyaneeshanand5648 why, what's stopping you?

@belowaverageplayer717 2 жыл бұрын

I've never been in a situation where nano was available and vi wasn't though.

@dhyaneeshanand5648 2 жыл бұрын

@@0xDEAD_Inside by wisdom I mean his experiences there's no way I could've lived through his life and learn lessons from them :((

@dhyaneeshanand5648 2 жыл бұрын

@@belowaverageplayer717 pretty sure he meant the quick usability of nano

@VittoIB 2 жыл бұрын

Vim + MarkdownPreview has completely changed how I take notes and plan lessons.

@altimmons 2 жыл бұрын

If VIM didn’t have the such abstract key commands I’d use it, but nano has like 10 to know

@codegeek98 2 жыл бұрын

and they're all sitting there on screen including the "get help" for the ones that don't fit, so every single day isn't a test; it's, at worst, a pop quiz with a cheat sheet on the back. you don't have to _memorize_ anything; you can just _learn_ it, and instantly look up new commands as you need them

@hansdampf2284 2 жыл бұрын

And nano works without knowing a single key binding at all, apart from Save and exit Keybindings are just there to make your Life a little easier.

@hansdampf2284 2 жыл бұрын

I know this is probably gonna hurt you guys, but I think Linux became a better place when Nano became a part of the standard installation in most Distros. Seriously I started on Suse in 2004 and the worst thing is when you end up in a tty, you don’t have a browser to get help and you cannot even use a text editor because the only installed one is vim. I am on gentoo now 17 years later, but I still love and use Nano for its simplicity and don’t want to leave it ever. A text editor should be so easy to use and it should not require learning it.

@entx8491 Жыл бұрын

You still have to learn something, you just cut off at a shallower level.

@deultima 2 жыл бұрын

Vim looks powerful, personally I gravitated towards Nano because it's been pre-installed on every distro I played with and normally I only use a terminal based editor for simple system config edits. Vim has always been a bit scary, but after seeing this I might play with it a bit more often. Thanks.

@user-he4ef9br7z 2 жыл бұрын

Vim is extremely powerful. Vim also comes with most distros, personally I don't care about that because almost everybody customizes their vim to the point they can't use the default anymore. If you feel intimidated by the learning curve check out a 6 part playlist by ThePrimegean to get the basics. That's how I started. That and the video from MAKC about vim and you will be faster than you ever have been.

@mikemarcum9407 2 жыл бұрын

Yup... been there done that and even tried neovim and a couple others... lasted about 2 months. Haven't touched a 'vim' of any kind since then.

@deultima 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-he4ef9br7z Thanks, I will check that out along with DT's other videos

@NicholasJJackson 2 жыл бұрын

Just do yourself a favor and get through the Vim Tutor. You will thank yourself for sticking to it.

@rmcellig 2 жыл бұрын

I love using plain text for everything. Way more flexible and fast. I do all of my radio playlists in txt files. Makes my radio life so much easier!!😀

@slipcurve1410 2 жыл бұрын

not to mention it works great wit git & diff. plain text is the future. word processors were a mistake.

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

Config files are less susceptible to destruction with nano by a beginner.

@jawuku3885 2 жыл бұрын

Even macOS comes with nano and vim out of the box

@RakibFiha 2 жыл бұрын

Why so surprised!! It’s Unix for flip sake.

@joaogabrielv.m328 2 жыл бұрын

openSUSE either

@nopenopeagain4397 2 жыл бұрын

My preference is the text editor I can quit from.

@pavelperina7629 2 жыл бұрын

In one or five ways? :)

@Donatellangelo 2 жыл бұрын

Edit your vimscript with nano! :]

@homfes 2 жыл бұрын

Best of both worlds

@slipcurve1410 2 жыл бұрын

i download microsoft word to edit my vimrc

@williambaldwin9346 2 жыл бұрын

DT, can you please do an updated video on this subject wit hall three? Vim, Nano and Emacs?

@noam65 2 жыл бұрын

I guess, if it is "one and done" type of very occasional quick file editing, nano is perfectly adequate. No bindings need be memorized. If you spend any kind of time editing text files, then memorizing vim key bindings becomes worthwhile. When I became a sysadmin, I had dozens of SUN clients and servers to administer, and vi was pre-installed on the OS and at the PROM level. So there was no choice but to learn it. PLUS I was handed a 1 page cheat sheet on paper. Yeah, I am old-old school.

@mahdi7d1rostami 2 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly you were using workman layout. How do you deal with vim's keys which scattered all around the keyboard?

@JamesBradrickMapa 2 жыл бұрын

Hey DT! How did you make the tall letters at the top of your .bashrc file and what are they called. Thanks

@stonehen1163 2 жыл бұрын

I recently have been trying out Micro, and like it pretty much. But, nano does everything it sets out to just fine.

@michaelduchac2742 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this

@KrishnaDas-yh7io 2 жыл бұрын

Hi @DistroTube I saw the new animation that displayed the DistroTube channel. Going with the theme of the channel it would be awesome if you could have the train that is shown using the sl command carrying the channel banner

@andrewmanger3701 2 ай бұрын

Great video, coming in 2 years later! You've convinced me to finally give vim a shot. Never wanted to memorize a bunch of random commands are only applicable to one thing, but such is life haha Can you share how you got your status line to look the way it does? I installed power line, but can't get it configured to show "COMMAND" when I hit the colon

@ude3333 9 ай бұрын

when you gave that command to reverse the order of lines in VI, did it actually changed the document text or only the view?

@Carolus_64 2 жыл бұрын

Nano works in the same way of the first word processor of the MS-DOS era: WordStar I still remember some commands, ctrl+K B = mark begin text, ctrl+K K = mark end text, ctrl+K C = copy marked text to current cursor position. Ahhhhh, what a memories!!!!

@zainjadoon759 2 жыл бұрын

hey there, I am using gnu Emacs (very new) and I have a question. How can I change the color of the banner text plugin.

@peisongxiao7373 2 жыл бұрын

For me: light editing: nano/heavy work that I want within my comfort zone: emacs -nw

@mukundmittal 2 жыл бұрын

I am sticking with 'nano' just because it has its cheat sheet displayed while editing. I am really bad at remembering things...😂😂😂

@auroradraco9974 2 жыл бұрын

Terminal emacs is the chad's terminal text editor 😎. But unironically, everyone should learn the basics of vim. Its so useful and saves infinite amounts of time imo.

@vandorlokronika9581 2 ай бұрын

Midnight Commander editor (mcedit) and micro are two other alternative to text editing in the terminal.

@pfavayi 2 жыл бұрын

If you are going to use command line text editors all the time and for important work , then it makes sense to learn vim .. But if you use command line text editors once in a blue moon, then there's not a replacement for nano..... You don't have to learn anything because all the key bindings and shortcuts etc are displayed at the bottom..... Even a blind man could use nano for the first time without anybody teaching him or reading a book..... There is no learning curve with nano.... But this is deep learning curve with VIM... Not all of us are prepared to go up a learning curve for a command line text editor that we will use two or three times a year only ....

@lordofthemound3890 2 жыл бұрын

So, in Vim if I’m editing a word and need to skip a single letter I have to press “esc” then “k” then “i” and start typing? To do the same thing in Nano I simply press the right arrow once to get the same result. Might as well be using ed.

@kellingc 2 жыл бұрын

I like using the dictionary in vim for spell checking.

@AndersJackson 2 жыл бұрын

You only need ssh access and Emacs on your personal computer to edit files in the server, like it was local.

@markgilbert249 2 жыл бұрын

I prefer Nano, I even took a intro to unix course in college that the first half was all VI stuff. I just couldn't get used to the key shortcuts. Nano made things super easy for what I need. Everything else is sed, echo, and grep and tail and awk

@JD-im4wu 10 ай бұрын

exactly how i feel, nano is more simple and modern and there are other tools like you said for the complexities

@qwert4871 4 ай бұрын

Micro is a TUI text editor that doesn't require relearning - all the familiar shortcuts, amazing selection support.

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

I love vim I used to write python in vim. It's been a while since I've used it for other than changing a few lines.

@AndrewErwin73 2 жыл бұрын

I got so used to using vim even for coding, when I needed to move to vs code, the first extension I installed was vim keybindings. Once I figure out how to more efficiently use debugging, git, and docker in vim, I will ditch vs code and go back.

@Lestibournes 2 жыл бұрын

I like Micro, which you previously recommended. How do I get Git to default to it?

@kingundfaker 2 жыл бұрын

$> git config --global core.editor micro

@imhemish 2 жыл бұрын

sometimes you dont want to frustrate yourself when you are editing some things in configurations, then you use nano for simplicity as you dont reqire :wq all the time. but writing a long code or long doucment requires vim

@michaelcarnevale5620 2 жыл бұрын

how is this even a question?

@lingux_yt 2 жыл бұрын

8:39 Rally X is so cool

@Aturnadagar 2 жыл бұрын

I use nano because that what I first learn and almost all distro have it as default not need to install. I wanted to learn vim but procrastinated because seems to me a time consuming learning curve... Until now, DT has open my eyes. A side by side comparison make it looks easy to learn, which is maybe the same fear of many nano user, spend too much time learning a hard and complicating new way (before this video, vim looked alien to me).

@Aturnadagar 2 жыл бұрын

Next Doom Emacs

@SwiatLinuksa 2 жыл бұрын

Use that, what best suit to you

@amietinen 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't pico integrated with the email client pine?

@johannesrodt290 2 жыл бұрын

Can you take a look at stumpwm again

@shubhanshutomar7940 2 жыл бұрын

I use vim for much of my use case except when it comes to copying and pasting from external sources like a web page, at that point nano(or micro) becomes my best friend.

@slipcurve1410 2 жыл бұрын

your setup might be broken. you can copy and paste to and from the system clipboard in vim. on some cases you need to set it up while most modern vims like nvim have it out of the box. by default it's the + register. ie: "+p means paste from the clipboard register.

@shubhanshutomar7940 2 жыл бұрын

@@slipcurve1410 Figured it out by the end of the day had to install gvim for clipboard support to work on arch linux, nut still this one thing is pretty basic and easy to achieve in micro or nano as they can copy paste via the default terminal key bindings

@AndyPlayedGuitar Жыл бұрын

I can see how powerful vim is, but it sounds like a pain to learn, nano is fine for my purposes though I've learnt things here that'll come in handy! Thanks for the video

@madandu 2 жыл бұрын

I recollect using pico editor, still prefer a cmd-line editor like nano/vi in kde :-) Also nice history talk.

@snowstagger2162 2 жыл бұрын

The need to use the command line also exists on windows. (For power users and the occasional system bonks)

@SimGunther 2 жыл бұрын

7:16 I smell a vim productivity scientific study coming up!

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys have you ever tried vim tutor speedrun what's your score??

@smisheduprog2475 2 жыл бұрын

How long does it generally take you to become comfortable with Vim?

@Tn5421Me 2 жыл бұрын

Now I understand why the default word replacement method in IRC is s/mistake/fixed

@fadedtimes 10 ай бұрын

considering I can't remember how to use vim, I will stick with nano or pico, thanks

@ChrisMoody 2 жыл бұрын

@distrotube by default vim (at least that comes with Ubuntu) doesn't tell you what mode your in on the bottom. Were you running neovim or something?

@dhananjaytanpure398 2 жыл бұрын

What about Micro?

@vince6792 2 жыл бұрын

VIM is fantastic when editing names of multiple files, music, or videos. Extremely convenient and time saving. I will admit it there was a learning curve to overcome, but time well spent learning the application. What would have taken hours took minutes with VIM.

@mikemarcum9407 2 жыл бұрын

You can DO THAT? Edit videos and music files with vim?

@vince6792 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikemarcum9407 yes, absolutely in batches no less. I had numerous media files that needed editing and would have taken days. I was introduced to the batch editing power of VIM. I'm sure there must be a KZfaq video showing how to process this specific function

@FabioCarneiro 2 жыл бұрын

i love vim, but honestly the nano goes beyond what you said like autocomplete and search. autocomplete: ^] Search for a string or a regular expression: ^W Insert another file into the current one: ^R and several other things, it's not as expansive and rich in possibilities as vim, neovim... , but it's not useless as it seemed in your video, I'm not correcting you, just bringing you information.

@altimmons 2 жыл бұрын

What about “micro” - micro is great

@thechadbuddha 2 жыл бұрын

i use "ne - nice editor" or micro

@urmom-wb5my 2 жыл бұрын

i use both, nano on gentoo and vim on arch.

@crazychicken0378 2 жыл бұрын

Btw I’m wondering if you’ve ever taken a look at bedrock Linux. I know you don’t like distro reviews but it’s a meta distro that does things in a really unique way

@Phydoux2112 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to say that the old Apollo terminals didn't have arrows. I was looking for a picture of one but it does have arrow keys. And after seeing them I do remember using those to navigate around the screen at work. This was back in the mid 80s to late 90s when we had these Apollo terminals. Late 90s we switched to computers. Windows 98 was the OS of choice. I was hoping they would have stuck with Linux because all of their software had to be created (I worked for a major airline and whenever I flew on employee passes I would have to use Apollo to list myself). Linux would have been a great OS for personal company software I think but they didn't go that route.

@iansecretario1337 2 жыл бұрын

what tyling manager did you use here?

@0x007A 2 жыл бұрын

If you rarely use the command line (terminal), then nano is sufficient and easy to learn (the commands are at the bottom of the screen). If you regularly work at the command line, then vim will ultimately be the better text editor to learn.

@mikemarcum9407 2 жыл бұрын

Because...???

@0x007A 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikemarcum9407 because what? I cannot answer your vague question without a question of my own which does not advance the discussion.

@slantsh 2 жыл бұрын

"Nanomachines, son."

@montyhall2805 7 ай бұрын

Nano is great if you don't want to use VIM because it's modal. However, if you're skilled in VIM - no comparison, VIM all the way (windowed, tabbed, file explorer, programmable, etc)

@12kenbutsuri 2 жыл бұрын

Does nano even work with a language-server?

@_antoniocouto 2 жыл бұрын

“I don’t know why they use ctrl+k, ctrl+u because mnemonically the don’t make sense” I find myself with the same problem when using pacman. That’s why I prefer apt based distros.

@shubhanshutomar7940 2 жыл бұрын

True!! I struggled a lot with pacman in the beginning but got the hang of it later.

@randalthor17 2 жыл бұрын

@@shubhanshutomar7940 Same, now I just can't get comfortable with apt now that I've used pacman tho

@nunnukanunnukalailailai1767 2 жыл бұрын

emerge -paqvuND --with-bdeps=y @world

@pavelperina7629 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm ... I understand, who can remember how to remove package using rpm, dnf, zypper, pacman, snapd, flatpak,....) just to realize that package is named differently and googling who owns certain file. Level 2: find manually installed packages, uninstall one of them and unistall libraries that no manually installed package depends on.

@Thomas-rl8kw 2 жыл бұрын

I used to be a big fan of apt. When i switched to arch I found pacman to be easier

@blanana_m 2 жыл бұрын

What about the notepad?

@torsten.breswald 2 жыл бұрын

comparing vim with nano is like comparing a motor bike with a bicycle, both have two wheels and you can probably shift gears and to roll arround on your frontyard you can do with both, but if you want to go for a longer ride you use vim, even though the needed skill level is higher to start

@Chronian-bm2vu 2 жыл бұрын

Nano:

@mikemarcum9407 2 жыл бұрын

You hit the nail on the head. Nano for simple text files.... VIM for coding...

@snipzmattio5887 2 жыл бұрын

I cant live without vim

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

I cant live without telescope

@dougtilaran3496 2 жыл бұрын

I can't live without flor de cana

@LAlexe 4 ай бұрын

This is another video that discuss using two "cars": Mini (or Fiat500) vs Porsche.

@thedarkenigma3834 4 ай бұрын

Or a Fisher-Price tricycle vs a standard bicycle without training wheels.

@jgndev 2 жыл бұрын

Learn vi/vim and you will always be able to use the text editor on any Unix system.

@georgeindestructible 3 ай бұрын

For a user who doesn't constantly edits text, nano is the way to go, because it's simpler and doesn't have the overhead of the buttons + all the amount of shortcut keys you need to know beforehand just to change a value or a few on a text file, but if you are doing some serious work, VIM seems to be the way to go, different tools for different tasks.

@qandak 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile... export EDITOR="emacsclient ... " export VISUAL="emacsclient ... "

@kdemetter 2 жыл бұрын

I came here looking for this comment :-)

@richtraube2241 2 жыл бұрын

export OS="emacsclient ..."

@RabindraNathMurmuready2upload 2 жыл бұрын

If anybody using emacs only for text editing then they should be switched to vim coz in comparison for speed edition vimer will be always ahead.

@mdarius2519 2 жыл бұрын

compromise and use micro

@JosephHarry 2 жыл бұрын

Every one says VIM, but where are the people who have to use VI. Now that has a learning curve.

@stee1rat 2 жыл бұрын

Not much of a difference, try ed for a learning curve

@littlepeon 2 жыл бұрын

First editor was Pico, as the diehards were still using ED at the time. Pico matured into Nano, and has and will be my goto editor. From not learning VIM keybindings, I literally forget them after a while as they are NOT intuitive! Using EMACS would be bloated overkill as it's just too much to learn and VIM at times seems the same way. If I can't get an easy GUI program to work (geany, gedit, kate), I'll just fire up nano and be done in a jiffy.

@JD-im4wu 10 ай бұрын

exactly dont follow the herd!

@richtraube2241 2 жыл бұрын

Vim, if only because it's less chordal and you can read command output into a buffer very easily.

@maskedredstonerproz 2 жыл бұрын

I honestly prefer vim, but nano is okay too

@rickc500 2 жыл бұрын

nedit is a windows type text editor that is easy to use for windows people

@nicomartin289 2 жыл бұрын

My Computer's teacher at college said: 'The old experienced ones, we use Vi, which has some defaults from another era that may be really strange for you, now for the pusillanimous, you get nano.'.

@overratedprogrammer 2 жыл бұрын

I hate not being able to click around in a text editor and having to slowly move around with keys

@kipchickensout 2 жыл бұрын

Dollar sign gets you to the end? but on german keyboards I have to press shift and some number to write a dollar sign

@sagichdirdochnicht4653 Жыл бұрын

For the user, that JUST needs a Text Editor, to change a line in a document and just do the basic stuff, that people would use a text editor for - Nano, absolutely, and without a doubt. Why? Because if you just started and JUST need quick access to a text editor, you absolutely don't wanna go trough the vim tutor. Before I'd do that, I'd get the file of the machine and edit it with any graphical text editor, as this is most likely still faster and easier. Vim is great, but only if you actually use it. Meaning that you'll use it more often. I eventually started learning Vim, and to do the basics, it really ain't THAT hard. And it really is a great text editor. It really is better then nano, in almost every aspect. But then again, only if you use text editors enough. If you don't do a lot, just use nano.