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Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim... What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ed when i need to get into a server and i have no clue whats running.

Nano when i know whats running and i cant install things.

Vim when i can install things.

At wprk we use vscode wnd jetbrains products but they are omly ok. I still like vim more.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I was just now years old when I learned that mg (AKA MicroGnuEmacs) comes with OpenBSD & MacOS.

[–] SystemQ@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Neovim + LazyVim

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

micro for sure. But I dont use it as a main editor. Just for quick text file adjustments.

[–] LloydKM@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Have been using vim for the longest time, but I‘m getting into nvim :)

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Vim for the most part, and nano for when I'm tired and can't remember how to work vim.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Exporting $EDITOR instead. Also, i don't use sudo; too much for desktop, too insecure for server.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 months ago

just learn acme

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Nvim all the way

[–] despaircode@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Acme

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

A few years ago I'd say Vim but nowadays it's Neovim for me.

[–] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

vim forever (i think)

[–] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Used to use micro but just switched to neovim, I'm finding it great, esp with the file manager built in

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

do you use neovim over vim for any particular reason?

i ask because i'm a vim user and wondering if should update but wondering if the x windows overhead is worth it.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Vim unless I can neovim.

Being able to change configs on headless systems was my gateway, now I just prefer it

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I still use nano, I tried micro and it's confusing af to use also it didn't allow konsole context menu to copy anything from it or paste anything from outside even with ctrl+v or ctrl+shift+v

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