renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1950arrow-down159
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minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down5·edit-28 days agoNANO GANG RISE for everything else, there’s sublime.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 days agoI tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8 days agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 days agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 days agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 days agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoReally? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB) Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoIf you like Sublime, you’re gonna love Micro.
NANO GANG RISE
for everything else, there’s sublime.
I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have
vi
installed, but I’ve seen a few withoutnano
.vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
:q!
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
ed
was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
vi
and gettingvim
is just a pleasant surprise :)If you like Sublime, you’re gonna love Micro.