• @SpaceNoodle
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    283 months ago

    Ctrl-K and Ctrl-U in nano, a sane editor that does not hate you

    • Eager Eagle
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      313 months ago

      Ctrl-X Ctrl-V in micro, if you appreciate a sane editor with sane keybindings.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        83 months ago

        That’s cool, and I can’t wait for it to gain widespread adoption, but nano is already more commonly installed by default.

        • Eager Eagle
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          better ootb experience with syntax highlighting, sane keybindings, plugin system, and other little things nano lacks.

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            Nano has had syntax highlighting for quite a while.

            Its keybindings also make sense if your brain is still stuck in the '90s. If not, they’re literally printed at the bottom of the terminal.

            If I need plugins, I’m not gonna be fucking around with a terminal text editor.

            What are these “other little things?” Certainly not “probably already installed on your system.”

      • @[email protected]
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        “Sane” keybindings are questionable given Ctrl’s location (painful to press with both pinky and thumb fingers). It’s standard, I’ll give it that, but those in helix or vim are mostly (I’m looking at you, navigation between splits) much saner all things considered

        • Eager Eagle
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          23 months ago

          or maps your caps to Ctrl, like vim users map it to esc

    • Ephera
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      33 months ago

      Doesn’t that just cut one line at a time? Or is this Emacs-like, where it buffers the lines?

      That host doesn’t have internet access, though, so installing a different editor wasn’t really an option to begin with…

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        53 months ago

        If the host doesn’t already have nano, you fucked up super early

        But yeah, it buffers the lines.

      • clb92
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        Doesn’t that just cut one line at a time?

        Move the cursor to the start of what you want to cut, press ALT+A, then move the cursor with arrow keys (you’ll see text be highlighted from where the cursor was to where you move your cursor), then once you’ve moved the cursor to where you want, press CTRL+K to cut.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        73 months ago

        That’s the neat part: you don’t.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          23 months ago

          Fair enough. Those are things that I like to be able to use, however. Which makes nano/pico/micro a non-starter for me. Different strokes for different folks.

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            33 months ago

            Well, they’re not necessary for 99.999% of what you need a quick CLI text editor for.

            • @[email protected]
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              13 months ago

              The use-cases for unquick GUI text editors are merely a subset of those solved by quick TUI text editors :P