renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1758arrow-down145
arrow-up1713arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square126fedilink
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down5·edit-211 hours agoNANO GANG RISE for everything else, there’s sublime.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 hours 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-up6·7 hours 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-up4·7 hours 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-up3·7 hours agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-239 minutes agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
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.
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.