Under a ssh connection nano, otherwise under the FreeBSD or Linux GUI Kate, but better yet, BBEdit under macOS. Have zero interest in a 1970/80’s command mode editor (vi[m]) or the complexity of emacs. I have the escape from vi in muscle memory, but I would never use it to edit anything.
There are three ways to edit text on a #Linux or #Unix like systems: 🫣
The vim or vi way
The emacs way
The wrong way
@nixCraft a superposition of Emacs and Vim. Mostly Emacs, but I occasionally set it to Vim emulation, usually when I am riding in a car or on a train, and it is easier to edit one-handed with Vim keybindings.
Using vim or emacs to edit a config file feels like using a nuclear reactor to boil water for tea. Nano is good enough, any other text editing job I prefer to use GUI tools; either GNOME text editor or VSCode 🤷♂️
I don't really know what the back engine for the text editor I use is. And I don't really care, my life does not need the complication as long as it works.
the kate way Kate with KDE, Gedit on gnome, or nano on pure terminal, but never, ever vi nor vim, I know how to use it, but it's very ugly & unpractical in front of other users
OK, my take: if I edit a simple config file in the shell, I'm using #vim as it is a decent simple text editor. It's also my default for writing emails or Usenet postings.
For almost anything else outside of the web browser, I'm working in #Emacs - which is not per se a text editor (alone).
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •GNU Nano - The wrong way!
Sounds like a good tagline!
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Followup: does VI/Emacs users also use vscode?
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •1 and 2 can be grouped together. #Vim is the right editor.
#holywar 😃
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •@nixCraft a superposition of Emacs and Vim. Mostly Emacs, but I occasionally set it to Vim emulation, usually when I am riding in a car or on a train, and it is easier to edit one-handed with Vim keybindings.
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Check ✅ out my hashes to analyse my editor of choice in POSIX OS
I love ❤️ 💕 Vim.Athena
🖋 #Vim #VimMasterRace #Amiga #Bram #BramMolenaar #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #WomenWhoCode #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #Linux #POSIX #Programming
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Ketata Mohamed
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Kate with KDE, Gedit on gnome, or nano on pure terminal, but never, ever vi nor vim, I know how to use it, but it's very ugly & unpractical in front of other users
IT-Awareness, Fabian Lucchi :donor:
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •GNU #Emacs, because Vi/Vim don't do what I want. GNU Emacs and Vi/Vim are really not comparable programmes.
#emacs #gnuemacs #vi #vim
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Really?
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OK, my take: if I edit a simple config file in the shell, I'm using #vim as it is a decent simple text editor. It's also my default for writing emails or Usenet postings.
For almost anything else outside of the web browser, I'm working in #Emacs - which is not per se a text editor (alone).
karl-voit.at/2015/10/23/Emacs-…
#PIM #PKM
Nick Anderson
in reply to Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: • • •@publicvoit well, one of my friends prefers to use ed almost exclusively.
I use vim or vi for quick edits in a console but otherwise emacs with evil mode.
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •⭐ Kate in the GUI
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