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What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - happygonutty - Jun 10, 2024
Title says it all my friends. What was your first go to text editor back then when you first started out with linux? Mine was plainly vim way back in the mid 2000s and I never used nano even though they say it was easier to use. What about you guys, what was your first text editor in linux?
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - die_dunkelheit - Jun 10, 2024
I used vi at first but then switched to nano.
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - Betty Blue - Jun 10, 2024
vim all day everyday for everything and i’ll die on that hill
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - Aeowulf - Jun 10, 2024
vim
Who starts with something else? This should have been a poll. VIM or OTHER
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - Betty Blue - Jun 11, 2024
(Jun 10, 2024 06:37 PM)Aeowulf Wrote: vimvim is love, vim is life
Who starts with something else? This should have been a poll. VIM or OTHER
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - Euaggelistes - Jun 11, 2024
(Jun 10, 2024 10:07 AM)happygonutty Wrote: Title says it all my friends. What was your first go to text editor back then when you first started out with linux? Mine was plainly vim way back in the mid 2000s and I never used nano even though they say it was easier to use. What about you guys, what was your first text editor in linux?
I used nano when I first started. (technically I used vi, but I couldn't get out of it and rebooted the computer... 🤣)
So, for several years I used nano until I learned how to properly use vi.
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - ItsAllGuccii - Jun 21, 2024
nano is much better than vi idk what peopal re saying
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - 7 - Jun 21, 2024
vim but hated it
Glad to get nano
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - Betty Blue - Jun 21, 2024
(Jun 21, 2024 01:58 AM)ItsAllGuccii Wrote: nano is much better than vi idk what peopal re sayingVIM is 1000% better than nano, if you need it. Buffers, regular expressions, functions, key mapping, plugins.
There isn’t even a question of nano being better if you spend 100% of your time in a Linux environment. Nano doesn’t even come close to the functionality of VIM, but if you don’t need that functionality and you’re not familiar with vim, than obviously you’re just going to use nano.
nano is basically for quick edits. If you’re doing all of your work in nano, you’re honestly a sadist.
That being said, vim master race.
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - happygonutty - Jun 21, 2024
(Jun 21, 2024 04:21 AM)Betty Blue Wrote: nano is basically for quick edits. If you’re doing all of your work in nano, you’re honestly a sadist.
Nano vs vim in a nutshell. 😆✌
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - I cry blood - Jun 22, 2024
I used Leafpad as my first GUI editor, and reluctantly used Nano for a terminal-based one.
gedit however if my all time favorite, especially because you can customize all the colorization and syntaxing.
RE: What was your first text editor when you first installed linux? - mixer - Jul 19, 2024
i used nano back when i was learning, now it's vim every day.