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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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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

nano is usually built in. Adding another one is just redundant if all you're using it for is editing an occasional config file.

Honestly never understood the hate for it. Who cares? Petty, stupid, nerd-wars over little crap like a text editor is the reason average people don't even consider linux.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

I see vim preinstalled more than nano (e.g. in container images). I've been trying to convert to micro, though. It has better support for terminal emulators than nano.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I very rarely see people hate nano (except a few comments in this thread), and I always see nano recommended as the text editor when people give advice on doing things in the command line