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If you're serious about sticking to the terminal, it's probably worth learning a terminal text editor like emacs or vim. Once you get the hang of them, you can be much more productive compared to something like nano.
I think it's also worth learning about job control and/or terminal multiplexers, but I've yet to fully understand them myself.
How can you be more productive in vim compared to nano?
Serious question.
Try running this:
vimtutorIf you are already aware of hjkl, skip to the part where you learn motions:
/motionThen look up surround (
yswis usually the command to surround a word,ys3wthe next 3 words, etc)It's pretty neat.
That is some very useful commands, thx! But I don't think I'll be using it often and hence I'll lose the skill. I know ctrl+vxs or f etc because I use them very often. Anything that I don't use is forgotten even if I'd use vim
Exactly! If you only have to edit small text files on a server once in a blue moon, nano is much less biomemory-heavy. But if you regularly write docs and code in l vim or neovim, it starts to pay off after a week or two.
I really enjoyed learning to quickly select and change entire words or lines, doing things like:
:%s/replace_this_text/with_that/gEtc. If you enjoy that, you will soon get to a point where you miss the motions in your regular editor and install a vim extension in VS Code and stuff, just before fully switching to neovimThx! I'll check out neovim!