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I have been around since production servers were predominantly HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX. I settled on Vi because it was the one common editor that was preinstalled on every *NIX OS, including Linux and you could jump right into edit mode while reading a file without having to exit the preview first.
Nano is fine, but one you've gone through the pain of committing Vi to muscle memory, there's no point to switch.
Not long ago, I needed to quickly add a 4-line thing to my Ruby on Rails app on my Raspberry Pi. I was like, shit, I really can't be arsed to mount the RPi over Samba to edit this stuff on VSCode on my Windows laptop to add like 4 lines. I don't have vim, I can't be arsed to check which vimlike I have at hand, I can't be arsed to see if my Emacs setup has been customised for this RPi. So fuck it, Nano it is!
The Venn diagram of nano users and Debian/Ubuntu users is a circle
sample size of me supports this hypothesis
I'm N+1
yep. One of the reasons I stick to debian based (vanilla Deb) is so that any dumbass tutorial works for me, because I am not smart.
I use nano just because it's the one that's usually installed. if it was usually Vim, I would use that instead.
Exactly. I use nano because it's always there, and if it's not somehow? It's in a preloaded repo. It's just so simple and easy.
And I've used it to write code before, only several dozen lines at a time. And that's BEFORE I knew about the option to use modern key commands. (Learned that today).
Now nano is unstoppable in my mind.
If I learned vim or whatever, then on top of learning it, I'd have to stop and install it every single time. Bleh. No thanks.
Example of optimocracy
*Ahem*
mceditunder sung hero of easy tui text editors. [Has controls on screen.]
overlooked because it's part of mc, and thus does not show up in the text editor categories in package managers and websearches?
could do a similar THGTTG bit for it. ... or other parodies of other stuff... idk, my brain not conjuring such things with ease just now.
(And yes, I missed the reference, at first, too... Thought about responding with some contrived towel elaboration).
mcedit is fine. I personally find micro the perfect blend of features and simplicity.
I use helix for all my developer work and nano for "I need to edit this config file buried somewhere in /usr/...". I never remember to do Sudo -E
I understand why. People tried using vi/vim but couldn't figure out how to exit the app. On the other hand, with Emacs, you need to use 4 keystrokes to do anything. It does not surprise me why nano is way used by default.