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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 78 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

What about nano? Is it OK to choose a safe middle ground? I mean with ed I could just as well use butterflies.

BTW, notepad++ is popular on Windows. That's the sort of software what gets hijacked.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Vim and Emacs are popular in ultra critical environments, and as far as we know they aren't compromised by any intelligence agency.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 34 points 6 days ago (3 children)

but I like nano!

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

nano likes you too. But real h4x0rs use vim. Or emacs if they have 40 fingers.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago (2 children)

nano good for idiot. me stupid. me nano for edit config file. nano not scary to leave, nano tell you exactly how!

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for not only the laughter this morning but also for perfectly explaining why I always go for nano.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

you nice to me. me thank.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

You know, I know the command to leave is written every time emacs is opened, but it confuses me every time.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You operate better in Emacs if you touch type, but you should learn to touch type if you work in an editor a lot

You rarely need to hold more than crtl, shift and a character, and you have ctrl and shift both sides of the keyboard so it's easy

Meta is toggled in the default configuration tap it then do whatever key combinations.

Ctrl+g cancels partly complete commands

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I dunno now I'm intrigued to check out emacs. Somehow I learned all the complex finger-ballet to operate Blender mostly by keyboard shortcuts as intended, so maybe that'll soften the learning curve? :D

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

im pretty sure you can operate emacs with only one finger with some insane configuration tho

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

im pretty sure you can operate emacs with only one finger with some insane configuration tho

Yes. They call it "Evil Mode".

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

lol, but evil is vim keybinds. i was thinking of something more like morse code with one key

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure someone already did a Morse IME that could be used for that.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

I have – were I more artistically talented – often wanted to create graphics and stickers for Emacs utilizing the noble octopus.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

nano's great

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I used to like nano too. Then I found micro.

[–] NoPanko@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah micro is my go to these days when i just want a terminal editor that does require me to learn a whole new system for something I’ve been doing most of my life

[–] prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Well just wait until you find out about mili then 🙏

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love nano, if only because nano means child in my language, and as slang it's more or less equivalent to "bro"

Bro, please I need to edit my docker compose.

I know it's only funny for me. That's enough

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

depends,
do you want to edit the textfile, or nanodit it?

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I actually prefer to microdit.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I spend several hours cursing the creators of Golang for making their language so annoying to compile on anything but the most common architectures.

Then I realised I could compile micro-2.14 with gcc-go...