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.

Once you configure nano with a ~/.nanorc file, it becomes a lot more like micro/helix without having to install anything on new systems. I just curl my config and I’m good. I have Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, 2 space tabs, mouse scrolling +selection, syntax highlighting, etc. There’s a lot you can do in there, and that’s not to mention plugins.

I am a noob. My server is a MacMini running Ubuntu server because it was easy to install. I have a website, Jellyfin and nexcloud.

I don’t have the brain cells to understand VIM.

In the CLI, I use nano, always. In the GUI, I use Sublime text because the colors are very pretty.

NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.

Emacs

Vi

Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.

Whatever is installed i dont care tbh.

I used Neovim for a couple of years and then switched to Emacs. I love it.

I use the vi family of text editors in a CLI environment because it is part of the POSIX standard.

Even if nano is the default, vi will be there too, and I can just use that. Plus, if you know some basic vi commands, then you can get by without nano, and you don’t need to know nano to use it for basic stuff as it shows you the key combos.

Vim is worth learning minimally because it is so common, but U am team nano because I have enough info in my brain and I don’t edit text files in the terminal enough to make it worth remembering how to properly use vim