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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean, it's true.

I've been using linux pretty exclusively at home for almost 25 years now. Program. Script. Work in the shell a lot, and the other day I had to use vim and it took me a while to remember the basic commands. I'm a nano guy :\

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Honestly, if you work in a shell a lot, learning vim is a great investment. You're gonna fly through files editing them faster than with any IDE.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also started off using nano. Have you tried Micro? It's like nano on steroids and with good keybindings

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At some point Nano added Ctrl+S for save. That's all I needed. Its syntax highlighting is decent too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ctrl w/o for save/save as are pretty easy to get used to tho

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Nano, Pico and Micro? is this editor trying to !compensate for something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1 for micro. I install it on every server I administer, and alias it to nano. If you're a nano user and haven't tried micro, I highly recommend it. It's like nano, but built this century, it feels fast and modern.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm with you on that. VIM is a good example of a tool that the deepness of the tool makes it aggravating to use for the 90% of simple use cases.

Unless you use VIM enough for the shortcuts to be second nature it is faster to install Nano, make the changes, and remove Nano than it is to use VIM.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you feel like it definitely give it another go. Vim (or neovim) is just insanely good once you've developed the muscle memory for the keybinds.
It takes a bit of time and practice but it's actually fairly user friendly once you understand how it works. (c for change, y for yank, p for paste, e for end, b for beginning etc.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was a nano person for the longest time, was planning to try out vim but never did, until i saw a coworker using it and he explained a little about the vim "language" actually worked and how much you could do with it

With some encouragement from him and a week or two of reduced productivity i was able to do everything just as fast in vim as in nano, and it only got better from there, now i find any other editor slow and tiresome in comparison

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you want something that is quite a nice editor too but doesn't require hundreds of lines of configuration, try helix. It also has nice help menus so it's fast to learn. I've used vim since the 90's and Emacs for many years, but nowadays I kinda just like hx how it just works with zero configuration for any programming language I need to work with.