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I am a noob. My server is a MacMini running Ubuntu server because it was easy to install. I have a website, Jellyfin and nexcloud.
I don’t have the brain cells to understand VIM.
In the CLI, I use nano, always. In the GUI, I use Sublime text because the colors are very pretty.
NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.
Whatever is installed i dont care tbh.
VIM FTW
Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.
I used Neovim for a couple of years and then switched to Emacs. I love it.
Vim is worth learning minimally because it is so common, but U am team nano because I have enough info in my brain and I don't edit text files in the terminal enough to make it worth remembering how to properly use vim
I use the vi family of text editors in a CLI environment because it is part of the POSIX standard.
Even if nano is the default, vi will be there too, and I can just use that. Plus, if you know some basic vi commands, then you can get by without nano, and you don't need to know nano to use it for basic stuff as it shows you the key combos.
When I was new at linux, I used nano and vs code; mostly because I don't want to learn the shortcut / keybind.
Started ricing with XFCE, tried to use keybind as much as possible and as minimalist as possible; that's where I slowly dip my toes into WMs.
SwayWM was my first WM and I don't think I'll ever switch other than that, that's also how I discovered vim; it was difficult at first but I got used to it very fast.
Used to be vim back in the day, neovim with a few lsp plugins — hated the convoluted collection of config scripts — then into vis (modernized vim/sam hybrid) but now settled on helix. After a small adjust for some finger memory, I wouldn’t go back. A lot of quality of life features out of the box.
I just a modal editor that just works with some quality of life features as codebases I worked on grew in complexity.
Nano, because it's the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.
Either you forgot your sarcasm tag or you shouldn't be using computers 🤣.
Top Tip: open another terminal and kill the task from there
( /s )
Vim, but I also find this battle completely stupid.
No only OP provided almost no discussion value in the post body, but also this topic has been discussed one million times and nothing more can be talked about.
Isn't the chance for us Lemmings to share experiences a good enough reason to start this thread?
To be frank, not really. What's so special about us Lemmings? I mean, so many other people brighter and more experienced than us have already shared. Whatever we said here can only be a subset to that at most, then why not just read the old threads.
Understandable, have a good day!
Same to you. Happy holiday.
I appreciate the sentiment. No tru holiday under the evil Empire's hammer tho.
I typically use nano for the quicker edits but enjoy using vim otherwise.
I use emacs
One of us!
Emacs.
With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I'm on the losing team. ;_;
Join us! Use Evil mode!
Still team Emacs. We're a team because we use elisp, not because of something trivial like how our text editors work.
At the risk of restarting the Editor wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war) from days of yore, I find it interesting that emacs wasn't even in your list of contenders. I hear it mentioned less frequently these days, so perhaps it's going by the wayside?
For the record, I'm a vi/vim user! I had the privilege of being taught to use it by an RFC-writing greybeard decades ago, and have used it without thinking ever since.
For those who find themselves on a machine with only vi/vim, or want to learn, here's a quick primer when editing a file (usually done by typing "vi foo.txt" in a shell) --
:q! ...Force quit vi (:q also works -- gentler!)
:wq! ...Save file and quit vi
i (then type characters) ...insert text at current position
A (then type characters) ...Insert at end of current line
G ...go to first character of last line in the file
/foo ...search for first occurrence of "foo" in the file (hit / again to find additional instances)
x ...Delete character under cursor
:56 ...Go to line 56
yy ...Copy the line the cursor is currently on into the buffer
p ... Paste the buffer
r (then type character) ...Replace character under cursor
u ...undo (hit multiple times to undo prior actions)
When done with a command like this, hit Esc to go back into normal mode.
Second nature after a bit of practice! I used to work with a guy who insisted on using ed. That was... odd.
Team Vim. Because I learned the vim basics once 20 years ago and never bothered to learn after that. :D
Surprise unix_surrealism
I'm an emacs -nw kind of guy.
But if I have to pick one of your options, nano
"Why are we running from the police, Dad?"
"Because they use vim, son. We use Emacs".
I use Helix... Uhhh idk I think it's nice I guess
Helix for modal, Fresh for non-modal.
Hmmm, Fresh looks interesting, didn't know about that one!
Nano. It's easy and I've never had a reason to change.
micro for sensible defaults out of the box, and because I don't like modal editors.