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Do you use vim?
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Nah, I'm another nano guy. You can set up syntax highlighting for it you know?
It's not that any one is better than the other, it's up to your use cases. I've learned vim a few times in my life already (and mostly just know the hjkl bindings from playing tons of terminal roguelikes) but it always decays because I don't put the knowledge to use. Because it just doesn't fit my use case.
I write small scripts, some Python and stuff and I'll usually use PyCharm to debug that these days. So nano is relegated to the small tasks like config editing or quick, in place fixes to scripts.
This is correct. For example, if the use case is editing a text file, then vim is better.