GNU Nano Thread

Does anyone use Nano? I am thinking of trying it out for University this coming semester over Emacs for it's simplicity. I also take paper notes so this would in addition to that.

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github.com/Mark-Weston/silva-rerum/blob/master/nanorc
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If you want to learn a new editor, learn vi. This is coming from someone who uses nano all the time and wishes they'd learned vi instead.

Too lazy now, nano does 97% of what I want from a text editor, and for actual code writing I just use an IDE.

It's acceptable but not as powerful as emacs. If you're already comfortable, why downgrade?

nano is about as capable an editor as MS notepad

I would use a graphical text editor for taking notes. Just easier that way for me. I've used Nano for all of my programming so far (EE).

idk I learned to use vi/vim and never looked back

Same. I truly am so comfortable typing in vim that it bothers me whenever I have to use something else.

I am. It's perfect, and most importantly it's the only editor capable of having sane keybindings. Use this nanorc and you won't have to learn anything:
github.com/Mark-Weston/silva-rerum/blob/master/nanorc

Don't listen to
They haven't used nano and they don't know how powerful it is. Mostly because a lot of it's power came over the last few years. Macros, word completion, external command execution, by-word navigation and a lot of other improvements have come during the recent years.
GNU nano is perfectly capable of being a good, simple code editor.

And unlike emacs or vim, it's not bloated and is recommended by the suckless.org community. The code is very simple as well, so if you find a feature that you miss (which is very unlikely) you can send a patch to nano-devel mailing-list. I myself have sent the --after-ends option patch.

I use nano because i can't work with vim.

your to dum

No, vim simply has obsolete key-bindings that you can't rebind.

you can rebind everything

Once you discover vim macros, you'll punch yourself in the nuts with fistful of razor blades for wasting so much time with nano.

hey that's not nice

$ cat ~/.vimrc
nmap :ec "your fagit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
nmap :ec "your fagit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
nmap :ec "your fagit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
nmap :ec "your fagit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
EOF

nano has macros as well you dum dum

>obsolete
implies that there are better keybindings. There are none. Vim keybindings > all else

sorry, meant emacs
vim is command-mode so it's even worse

nano is a notepad of unix

Nope.

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>Text editors
Stop being autistic and just use Microsoft one note

>so it's even worse
than you're mom and your lyfe

It has been a few years ago. Not anymore.

>not Microsoft Word 2019 Professional Edition
2/10 made me chuckle

>vim
Nigger enablers. Use it if you hate the White Race that much.

If you had nano you could invoke a spell checker before posting and not appear this dumb. Too bad you're stuck with vim.

you can't read can you

*you're too dumb*
>is this what you attempted?

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nah your just getting used to notepad that's all

I don't think you're literate. See Or maybe fuck off to Africa to help Ugandan children?

>because its old its bad

if hoowyte is so great why other race exist? :^)

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ah shit wrong snippet

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nano is the best option for anything of worth user
fight me shitheads
>replace pic with something tough

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would love to
I can also take your charity there if you wish

no it's just outdated - that's what obsolete means

Can record keystrokes. Kind of pointless when nano only has basic capabilities.

that's deprecated retard
holy shit Jow Forums is full of bait these days

:q = quit.
This confuses the nanotard.

dictionary.com/browse/obsolete
Nano can execute external commands, pipe the selection to stdin and replace it by stdout. So basically it can do anything.

>command based text editor
Enjoy being inefficient

nano a cute

>Word over onenote when taking notes

>command based
vim:
command mode
insert mode
visual mode
diff mode
???? mode
nano:
dumbass mode

>switch to insert mode
>write something
>switch to command mode
>find an occurrence of a word
>switch to insert mode
>write something
instead of
>write something
>^F, find something
>write something

:r [/path/to file] read contents of file into document
! [command] run command
:r! [command] # read output of command into document.

Yeah, nano can do that as well
Your point?

Sorry, I thought you were trying to suggest nano could do something vim couldn't.

Yeah, so when both can do the same, why would you take vim over nano when nano is easier to use?

Easier for brainlets.

>when you insist on doing the same thing in a way that's less efficient and more complex because that makes you feel smart

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When Ctrl X yes is easier than :x

both can do the same.
in your dreams.

>when your editor is not powerful enough to save a file with a single keystroke and instead you need to type two characters and hit enter

>notepad
>notepad
>notepad

Not a single example of what nano couldn't do has been shown in this thread.

when you can't count.

>Ctrl
>X
>single keystroke

>ed
>ed
>ed
>ed
>ed
>ed

hackaday.com/2016/08/08/editor-wars-the-revenge-of-vim/

fine, 2
let's coun't how many do you need with vim:
1: shift
2: colon
3: x
4: enter
double that

Well that settles it.
Let's all switch to the command line version of notepad.

it's literally like that with every command
and vim doesn't have anything useful nano can't do

>Ctrl
>X
>y
>Enter
you lying faggot

rebind your keybinds you fucking imbecile
github.com/Mark-Weston/silva-rerum/blob/master/nanorc

btfo yet? :^)

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and nano doesn't have anything useful notepad can't do

select everything
^O (open file menu)
F8 (toggle to external command)
F9 (toggle to pipe selection through stdin and replace by stdout)
F10 (toggle to insert into current buffer instead of new one)
dowhateveryouwant.sh

Done. You can bind this whole thing to a macro and do it in two keystrokes as well.

Macros, word completion, external command execution, bracket matching, syntax highlighting, goto-line, find/replace string or regex match, line numbers, multiple buffers, findprev/findnext, and on and on and on...

webm it or it didn't happen

wot

>4.9k of editor configuration

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still doesn't make it any useful than notepad

I liek diz bread

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UX is alright. Inside it's, ironically, even more bloated than vi. Try this, maybe: github.com/antirez/kilo

streamable.com/t1y9w

post the webm on Jow Forums or it didn't happen

well now you're just being stubborn and stupid
but I proved my point

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Nano is for babies. Use Vim.

Scroll up the thread, see your fellow vimtard getting demolished

You can remap keys in vim.
You can do anything the nanotard has listed so far in vim.

I love how this turned from "nano is equally as powerful as vim" to "vim is equally is powerful as nano"

I wouldn't go that far.
I will grant that you're a high functioning nanotard, tho.
Sad. A mind is a terrible thing to waste/

keep telling yourself that as you have to type extra keystrokes and go out from insert mode into command mode and back for the most simple of tasks

Nano + IDEs is the true master race.

Don't ever stop to wonder what you might be able to do if you had chosen the patrician's text editor.

nope it's still "notepad is equally as powerful as nano"

So much simpler with nano where insert mode is the only mode there is.

so is notepad

Then fucking show me.
One guy tried and got destroyed.
I wonder why nobody else does.
Probably because they're talking out of their ass.

the notepad shill is making some solid points, desu.

this is what vim does to people's minds
they turn them into monkeys repeating the same mantra over and over again

You should try vimcasts or something like that if you're genuinely curious.
But I guess if you were of the intellectual bent, you wouldn't be using nano.

let's all agree that nano is just notepad of unix

open vimcasts.org
first thing I see is:
"Pasting into a terminal buffer"
HAHAHAHAHA

SO THIS IS THE POWER OF VIM
THEY HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO PASTE SHIT

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Well you do have about 30 buffers to chose from, with different intended purposes.

hey nanofags, you do know that you can run notepad through wine right?

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Btw, if you're by chance wondering, you can paste shit in nano

1. Toggle auto indent off if you have it on (F2)
2. Paste (depends on terminal, on st terminal it's Ctrl+Shift+V,
3. Toggle auto indent back on if you had it on (F2)