Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim… What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?
neovim through nvf on NixOS. I’m not even a power user, I just had a shit mouse in college and didn’t want to use it and now I’m hundreds of lines of Lua too deep to go back. This is my life now.
Neovim + LazyVim
Mostly Neovim and Nano. Tried out ed in the UNIX4 tape that got recovered, was strange but fun to see where sed, grep and other commands got their name from.
GUI is still good old Sublime Text, but I almost completely switched to terminal based editors, I guess because of the nice work flow.
vis. Only used it for editing configs and stuff though, not programming.
Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized
Kate 👀
Neovim for terminal but often I use kate for gui because I still don’t find vim commands more efficient
Was staunchly team vim for 15 years, but now I’m on helix. As another user stated below, its like if vim were re-designed today, and without needing any addons to be a code-aware editor.
Vim unless I can neovim.
Being able to change configs on headless systems was my gateway, now I just prefer it
Used to use micro but just switched to neovim, I’m finding it great, esp with the file manager built in
do you use neovim over vim for any particular reason?
i ask because i’m a vim user and wondering if should update but wondering if the x windows overhead is worth it.
I just assumed it was probably better in some way, idk the difference but didn’t want to run into smth and need to switch
vim forever (i think)
nano, vi, geany, kate…
I prefer nano - simple to use & always available. I manage remote systems often from my mobile using termius: config file editing, writing simple scripts for some analysis/automation tasks and recording task notes and status. Using a tablet I might use vi but generally prefer nano.
Helix: Barely needs a config. But they are also pretty close to done with a plug-in system for the stuff that isn’t implemented by default :D
Nano. It’s the easiest to use
When I first started using Linux I used Kate, I know, I know, not command line, but I didn’t needed a command line editor for my own computer. Eventually I started using nano for quick edits and that became my default CLI editor for a while. I don’t remember what I used as an IDE back then, but maybe it was Eclipse, although I think it was mostly just Kate.
Eventually I decided to learn either VI or Emacs, and a friend who used Emacs pushed me to that side. I ended up switching everything to emacs, CLI, IDE, I even learnt org-mode and had tables and presentations in it.
Eventually my pinky started to hurt too much, so I switched to Pycharm for python, and kept emacs for C++, text edits and org-mode. I ended up slowly switching emacs everywhere and reverted to nano.
Some years back I decided to properly learn vim. I have been using nvim for a few years, and while it’s not the everything tool that emacs was for me, it’s still pretty darn useful. I also haven’t become a movement ninja and oftentimes I go
wwwwwwto get where I want to be. But still, there are some very nice shortcuts that I use a lot like Change Inside/Around or Delete X lines. Macros are cool, and sometimes feel magical, but other times they don’t work like I expected and I can’t figure out why. I don’t see myself changing to something else, the ubiquity of vim shortcuts in other programs makes it very convenient when I have to use something else.
