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why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom. (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Skullgrid@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I use micro. It's 1000x better.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pico...I'm going the wrong direction

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ugh. At least two decades I've used them and never made that connection. Thank you. And curse you. lol

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Today I learned about the existence of "milli" and "kilo", both of which are terminal-based text editors! Quite interesting. I wonder if there are any more SI unit prefix text editors...

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Holding out for a cursed deca

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't come standard like nano tho for a lot of distros

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

barely an inconvenience, you're one curl away from it

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Assuming you have internet access lmao

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

idk if I ever set up a new machine without internet access, but sure

there are corner cases you'll need to use what's available. They should be exceptions.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

Nano with a few config options by default?

[–] moendopi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was coming here to say "what about micro?"