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How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use (lemmy.fosshost.com)

submitted 2 months ago by majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

modal editing can be fun. it is a weird skill like driving a manual transmission.

that said driving a manual transmission in stop and go traffic on a hot day is a lot like editing in vi sometimes.

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[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

For vim I had to config or install something just to be able to COPY something to use outside vim, how backwards is that? Isn't this the most standard feature one can expect to work as default?

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Micro is where its @ <3

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nano is my "daily drive", but I'd use vim as well -- takes a couple seconds to search for "how to type in linux vim" and "how to save a file in linux vim" anyways. :^)

[–] Rekhyt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know i and :wq and that's all I ever plan on learning

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[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me on Micro

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[–] Fizz 6 points 2 months ago

I started on Emacs and then didn't use it for a few years and forgot everything so now I'm stuck on Nano. But that's fine because nano does everything I want it to do.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

kwrite and gedit friends rise up :)

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On KDE, there's also Kate. They used to be totally different apps, but these days, KWrite is a simplified version of Kate. They both use the same text editor component, but Kate adds more IDE-like features.

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

Ed users entered the chat

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