Vim has things like copy and paste, including being able to highlight text, search and replace, and I find its commands a lot less clunky than Nano’s. I am not a software developer or a sysadmin, just someone who uses Linux for fun. All of this stuff works without having X or Wayland running too.
Reaching over to CTRL every time you want to copy some text, delete a word, delete the next character or perform any other basic edit starts to take a toll on your hands after 20 minutes
What’s so great on vim for the average Joe which isn’t offered by nano?
Teleportation: the cursor can be teleport to any line without pressing down key multiple times…
Macro: for repeating a sequence of inputs multiple times…
Tabs: nano can’t open multiple files at once i believe…
Split screen(horizontal and vertical)
Themes and plugins
These are a few that comes to mind…
Yeah, for all of those things, there’s Micro.
Yes, but the person asked comparing to nano…
Vim has things like copy and paste, including being able to highlight text, search and replace, and I find its commands a lot less clunky than Nano’s. I am not a software developer or a sysadmin, just someone who uses Linux for fun. All of this stuff works without having X or Wayland running too.
Reaching over to CTRL every time you want to copy some text, delete a word, delete the next character or perform any other basic edit starts to take a toll on your hands after 20 minutes