• @vynaaa
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    175 months ago

    Vi is a very old piece of software. Unless I’m mistaken, it doesn’t even have syntax highlighting. Vim is “vi improved” and supports all kinds of stuff, including extensions. Neovim is vim that uses Lua as an extension language, instead of vimscript. That allows for easier creation of powerful extensions.

    Nano is a simpler text editor that is not as “powerful” as the vim family. Emacs is a state of mind.

    In general, all of these are good tools and get the job done.

    • @DeathbringerThoctar
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      65 months ago

      All I know is when I’ve been deep in the jungles of Linux config files, vi was there for me and it has my gratitude.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      All of them aside from nano become marvellous after enough usage to know how to use them efficiently

      One of them has memes about knowing how to close it