Nano is the best text editor available. Suck my dick.
Nano is the best text editor available. Suck my dick
Benjamin Evans
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Nathan Carter
mein eiyes
Easton Gonzalez
this.
Sebastian Rivera
How does one rice nano let alone vim?
Jordan Kelly
you going nowhere with that attitude
Benjamin Rodriguez
You dont. Use emacs.
Colton Rodriguez
I use it only for quick config file edits and source code ≤100 lines. For everything else, I use a proper GUI text editor.
Used vi only a few times when it was all I had.
Evan Perez
Nano? That's retarded because the real best editor available is ed.
Because when I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED! Ed is the standard text editor.
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
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help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
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eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Benjamin Adams
I disagree
Benjamin Hill
I just whatever is installed by default and if nano and vi are availabe I will choose nano over vi. I use leafpad if I don't feel like using a terminal
Jordan Ortiz
>nano
>OP immediately thinks about his dick
Matthew Fisher
Fuck you
Gavin Russell
what's bothering you user? had a bad day?
Caleb Nguyen
Good one cute anime girl
Angel Scott
Elvis > the rest
Gavin Hughes
mg is the master-race.
>traditional vi - 30k loc
>mg - 15k loc
Nathan Ross
Is Nano somehow better than Vim? I keep seeing it shilled.
Ryan Peterson
>>mg - 15k loc
Why you lie?
Lucas Lewis
Elvis can go really low if you compile it right but is really small anyway. Checkmate atheists.
Anthony Rogers
my only gripe is the syntax highlighting for quoted strings and block comments kind of sucks at times
Also the autoindenting is very glitchy so I have it disabled (e.g rather than maintaining the previous indentation level, it sometimes randomly adds a new level).
Lucas Smith
nano is vim without the autism
Jaxson Brown
Syntax highlighting is a meme anyway.
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Cooper Watson
When you say "vim" do you mean vim specifically or vi-likes in general?
Henry White
that author has some literal brain problems
vi
Thomas Wood
That is some Freudian psych-analysis shit right there.
Outch, nanodickman. You got B u r n e D
Joshua Watson
>that author has some literal brain problems
What particular quotes leads you to believe this, and why?
And what part of the spectrum is vi on, and why do you think it is located there?
Nathaniel Kelly
>What particular quotes leads you to believe this, and why?
I only needed to see the large chunk of the text spent on painstakingly highlighting verbs in prose and showing that the result is a shitshow, and then claiming code is the same, to know that the author is full of shit
Jordan Rivera
You missed the actual point he was making:
>Understanding is vital when reading code. Unlike novels or newspaper articles, where you can skim through a paragraph and learn the gist of it, software is inevitably full of complexities and important details that you just have to take the time to understand. To do that, you need to be looking at the code at the semantic level.
>And even when the code is already well-known to them, most developers would rather come across (and fix) memory leaks, security holes and inefficient algorithms than mere syntax errors. Syntax errors will be found by the compiler anyway; the developers shouldn't waste time looking for them. But if syntax highlighting biases their minds towards the syntax of the code rather than its meaning, wouldn't they end up doing just that?
Alexander Phillips
the meaning is inextricably linked to the syntax and the relations between keywords/types and other tokens
if you can highlight e.g numbers then it is easy to see them in the context of the rest of the expression
Jack James
based
Angel Morgan
>the meaning is inextricably linked to the syntax
No it isn't.
Let's stick with his text analogy:
>Bob is sitting in a chair
>Bob is running in a chair
Both of these obey the same syntax (Bob is verb-ing in a chair), but the meaning is different and only one is correct. This is the point he was making.
>then it is easy to see them in the context of the rest of the expression
But his point was seeing what it is as an aspect of syntax is not what is important.
Elijah Richardson
natural language and how it derives its meaning/semantics is completely different from programming languages; the comparison is completely nonsensical.
it all comes down to preference, except preference is not good enough for the author so he has to find some convoluted autistic explanation for why his preference is better than the opposing preference.
Chase Edwards
you instantly see where there are comments, where there are strings, the (loop) control stuff (break, continue, return),
as well as where each case/block/etc begins
as long as you do not go full retard and name your variables with the names of ("reserved") keywords, you see where the variables are defined too, and scanning the code for repeat uses of variable becomes easier as your eyes can skip past the stuff that has other colours
to say that syntax highlighting only is useful for detecting when you typed say `wihle' instead of `while' is total bullshit
Mason Sanchez
Sorry m8 vim is better because it highlights opening and closing parenthesis. Tried editing my PHP in nano nearly had an aneurysm counting my goddamn parentheses. vim uses less screen real estate and gives more space to the file's content.
Samuel Walker
Nano doesn't highlight matching {([ parans, but you can jump between matching pairs with Alt+], it works the same way and it's extremely useful.
Henry Hill
mc is the best text editor available. Suck my dick.