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Why nano gets used (lemmy.world)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by Skullgrid@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

Nano has already supplanted the great EMacs and Vim as the most popular text editor of all linux distros, for though it has many omissions in functionality it scores over the older, more complete programs in two important respects. First, it is slightly simpler; and secondly it has the text "^ Exit" inscribed in highlighted text on its footer

EDIT : This sees to be going over some people's heads. It's a hitchiker's guide to the galaxy reference.

The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions . . . it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

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[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Nano is great for editing files. It is absolutely terrible for any amount of text processing or anything other than raw code copied from a tutorial

[-] heliotrope@retrofed.com 2 points 2 hours ago

What sort of text processing? I rarely do this, so I usually just rely on things like sed, ed, sort, uniq, and other shell commands to handle this.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

You guys do text processing on terminal editors?

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 46 minutes ago

was gonna say, I have IDEs and other dedicated programs for that

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Of course. What do you think vim users do?

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