Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
When I first started using Linux I used Kate, I know, I know, not command line, but I didn’t needed a command line editor for my own computer. Eventually I started using nano for quick edits and that became my default CLI editor for a while. I don’t remember what I used as an IDE back then, but maybe it was Eclipse, although I think it was mostly just Kate.
Eventually I decided to learn either VI or Emacs, and a friend who used Emacs pushed me to that side. I ended up switching everything to emacs, CLI, IDE, I even learnt org-mode and had tables and presentations in it.
Eventually my pinky started to hurt too much, so I switched to Pycharm for python, and kept emacs for C++, text edits and org-mode. I ended up slowly switching emacs everywhere and reverted to nano.
Some years back I decided to properly learn vim. I have been using nvim for a few years, and while it’s not the everything tool that emacs was for me, it’s still pretty darn useful. I also haven’t become a movement ninja and oftentimes I go
wwwwwwto get where I want to be. But still, there are some very nice shortcuts that I use a lot like Change Inside/Around or Delete X lines. Macros are cool, and sometimes feel magical, but other times they don’t work like I expected and I can’t figure out why. I don’t see myself changing to something else, the ubiquity of vim shortcuts in other programs makes it very convenient when I have to use something else.Nano 4 life
My first experience with *nix was a professor leading me into a server room though two biometric locks and setting up the config files for a compute cluster faster than I would have been able to open the files.
He was using Vim, and though it took me a while to learn, the sheer speed with which he was able to get us out of that unbelievably noisy server room sold me for life.
Well, I use
vimfor text edits andnvim+extensions for an IDE. As close to avimpurist as is reasonable. But frankly, it’s the first one you learn to use well.Helix + my Nix-based configuration tool
kate textfile &and what ?? don’t leave me hanging
Been using linux full time for 10 years. I do almost all of my system admin stuff in the terminal (my desktop, laptop, home server with a few containers). But i cant for the life of me figure out vim (like i know how, but it just doesnt click for me or feel natural)… i tried a bunch of times and will keep trying… but until then, its (shamefully) nano for me
Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.
Nano because It happens to be what I learned first and I don’t get enough of a chance to use my computer anymore to even try anything else
Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix
My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.
Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.
Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.
I have been learning vim specifically because of VimWiki. It’s always fun getting a few words into writing a document before realizing I wasn’t in Insert mode, then I have to figure out what I messed up.
vim, mainly cause I haven’t figured out how to quit yet.
Micro, for muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts from when I was a mostly GUI user.
vi, since it’s ubiquitous.NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.
