Using Nano Because Vim Is Scary? Use Micro Instead! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Casey
People probably would use Vim if Vim had some easily accessible documentation. How do you expect people who don't already know Vim to open up the editor and see nothing, know what to do at that point in time? It is absurd to expect this of anyone, and even their website doesn't give much help in even finding the help on the site to use Vim. Integrate some tools into the code for Vim, make it easy for people to learn it and they will. Until that happens people will keep using nano, guaranteed. It has nothing to do with -fear-, it has to do with getting things done and if you don't know how to use an app, there's a learning curve. A learning curve can't really be easily overcome with no help available to overcome it.
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People probably would use Vim if Vim had some easily accessible documentation. How do you expect people who don't already know Vim to open up the editor and see nothing, know what to do at that point in time? It is absurd to expect this of anyone, and even their website doesn't give much help in even finding the help on the site to use Vim. Integrate some tools into the code for Vim, make it easy for people to learn it and they will. Until that happens people will keep using nano, guaranteed. It has nothing to do with -fear-, it has to do with getting things done and if you don't know how to use an app, there's a learning curve. A learning curve can't really be easily overcome with no help available to overcome it.
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itech
I am not -afraid-. I just want to get into the file on the remote server, make my change, and get out. I don't need split screen or special colors. When I code on local, I have all that in my full-featured IDE.
If I just need to look at a file, I use less. Only if I need to edit a huge file, I use vim after I googled a cheatsheet again.
I've had plenty of contacts with Vim, even tried to learn it a few times, but I realized I'd rather fill my limited brain with other things.
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I am not -afraid-. I just want to get into the file on the remote server, make my change, and get out. I don't need split screen or special colors. When I code on local, I have all that in my full-featured IDE.
If I just need to look at a file, I use less. Only if I need to edit a huge file, I use vim after I googled a cheatsheet again.
I've had plenty of contacts with Vim, even tried to learn it a few times, but I realized I'd rather fill my limited brain with other things.
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Epic
Nano is not powerful and some times is downright annoying but is dead simple and everyone want's something thats simple and less demanding from the user. I can't remember every shortcut for every program i use, heck some times i don't remember names of people i know for 4 years how vim thought that including 70 shortcuts and different mods will make people use it ?
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Nano is not powerful and some times is downright annoying but is dead simple and everyone want's something thats simple and less demanding from the user. I can't remember every shortcut for every program i use, heck some times i don't remember names of people i know for 4 years how vim thought that including 70 shortcuts and different mods will make people use it ?
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Lolechi
There are no good editors. Vim is a modal interface almost as if deliberately designed to confuse and infuriate users. Emacs is slow and ancient with keybindings that make no sense unless you have an extra pair of hands. VSCode are also very slow and tied to Micro$oft. Ed is a bigger joke than nano. What should we use? Acme?
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There are no good editors. Vim is a modal interface almost as if deliberately designed to confuse and infuriate users. Emacs is slow and ancient with keybindings that make no sense unless you have an extra pair of hands. VSCode are also very slow and tied to Micro$oft. Ed is a bigger joke than nano. What should we use? Acme?
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Daemonoid
I've learned how to use Emacs and I'm pretty productive with it duo to Org mode, but I loved Micro at the first sight duo to the default standardized keybindings. Damn the default keybindings of Emacs and Vim feels AWFUL!
Ps: Yeah, I know you can change Emacs configurations.
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I've learned how to use Emacs and I'm pretty productive with it duo to Org mode, but I loved Micro at the first sight duo to the default standardized keybindings. Damn the default keybindings of Emacs and Vim feels AWFUL!
Ps: Yeah, I know you can change Emacs configurations.
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Donna
For people used to GUI text editors, micro is (almost) perfect.
I can use nano and vim, and I actually use it when I need it, BUT when I switch to a regular code editor I start pressing things like -ZQ- and -ctrl K-.
Muscular memory is sometimes annoying
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For people used to GUI text editors, micro is (almost) perfect.
I can use nano and vim, and I actually use it when I need it, BUT when I switch to a regular code editor I start pressing things like -ZQ- and -ctrl K-.
Muscular memory is sometimes annoying
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GafftheHorse
Nano also has syntax highlighting, it's just seems to not be set up by default on most distros though.
If you are used to coding on old mainframes limited to screen editing, there's nothing particularly limiting to nano.
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Nano also has syntax highlighting, it's just seems to not be set up by default on most distros though.
If you are used to coding on old mainframes limited to screen editing, there's nothing particularly limiting to nano.
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kebman
Awesome! I'm sold! I rarely if ever need a terminal text editor since I use Sublime, but the colour highlighting in Micro are nice, and when I do need to do the odd editing, it's easy and intuitive. Thank you!
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Awesome! I'm sold! I rarely if ever need a terminal text editor since I use Sublime, but the colour highlighting in Micro are nice, and when I do need to do the odd editing, it's easy and intuitive. Thank you!
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geeshta
The capital letters don't mean that you have to press Shift also. Ctrl+g, Ctrl+e etc. work. It's just a style thing. In Nano, all the shortcuts display capital letters but you don't have to use Shift.
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The capital letters don't mean that you have to press Shift also. Ctrl+g, Ctrl+e etc. work. It's just a style thing. In Nano, all the shortcuts display capital letters but you don't have to use Shift.
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David
I don't use nano because vim is scary. I use nano because it's installed on a system instead of vim. The truth of it is I HATE terminal text editors. You're in a GUI. use a damn real text editor.
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I don't use nano because vim is scary. I use nano because it's installed on a system instead of vim. The truth of it is I HATE terminal text editors. You're in a GUI. use a damn real text editor.
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