majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.comimagemessage-square328fedilinkarrow-up1858arrow-down159
arrow-up1799arrow-down1imageHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.commajestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square328fedilink
minus-squareBaumGeist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down8·2 months agoNano is notepad, but with worse mouse integration. It’s Vim/Emacs without any of the features. It’s the worst of both worlds If you want ease, just use a GUI notepad. If you want performance boosts, suck it up and learn Emacs or Neovim
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoWhy would you use a mouse in a console editor? Most of the time, if you’re using Nano, it’s because you’re not in a GUI environment.
minus-square𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶@lemmy.procrastinati.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoHeaven forbid I want to use an intuitive, simple, terminal based text editor when I ssh into one of my boxes. But here’s the real kicker. Why do people like you give two shits what text editor other people use?
minus-squareTranstronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoWhat if you want ease on a terminal?
Nano is notepad, but with worse mouse integration. It’s Vim/Emacs without any of the features. It’s the worst of both worlds
If you want ease, just use a GUI notepad. If you want performance boosts, suck it up and learn Emacs or Neovim
Why would you use a mouse in a console editor? Most of the time, if you’re using Nano, it’s because you’re not in a GUI environment.
Heaven forbid I want to use an intuitive, simple, terminal based text editor when I ssh into one of my boxes.
But here’s the real kicker. Why do people like you give two shits what text editor other people use?
What if you want ease on a terminal?