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The only reason why I use Nano is so I can act like DankPods while saying it.
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I can’t try again because I can’t exit out …
Good, you still can get it right on the first try then
It’s a common problem but the correct solution to closing vim is quite easy, press and hold control alt and F5 to drop to a new terminal. From there you can do “killall vim” to properly close vim, then just drop back to your main session
I wish I’d read this years ago! I’ve nearly bankrupted myself buying a new machine each time, thanks!
Just type
:!bash(or whatever heathenous shell you prefer) and you never have to leave the warm embrace of vim ever again
The only Dad advice you nerds need:
mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.
I don’t even run arch, btw.
I remember when the GNOME file manager was this kind of interesting hybrid that used MC for the backend. The one thing I liked about it was that it could be docked in Window Maker. Yep I was using a Dock in GNOME waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before most GNOME users.
Nowadays it’s still possible to replicate my old Window Maker desktop in XFCE.
Ok, let’s try that
FIrst
Ok, that is already more storage space than openwrt needs to run a full linux distro
root@proxmox:~# mc mytestfile.txtEsscuse me, the fuck is this !?
You’re looking at the full mc package rather than just mcedit. Even then, Midnight Commander is absolutely worth that whopping 7.9MB of space it takes for all the functionality it provides.
Openwrt is not an example to use to compate against a package size, as it’s target built to fit into small firmware storage spaces on all sorts of random hardware. That’s comparing existential philosophy with oranges.
Would you download a car?
You bet I would down load a car ,!! I’m going to down a car right now !!
I’m a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think ‘dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out’
Neovim >
I’ll stick with my trusty Emacs (and Zile)
emacs is a fantastic operating system, but it lacks a good editor.
I’m gonna find a fallout community and post this there.
If you don’t like Vim you should try vis.
but modal editing is exactly what I don’t like about vim
No thanks, I’m rolling my own text editor with a GUI…
It’s an electron app…
No, I’ll likely code it in D, with with blackjack and hookers!
Yes! No more keyboard! Pick your letters with a mouse and menus.
Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.
“how the fuck do I use you?”
then go back to nano
repeat.
Have you tried micro? Nano but better.
Have you tried GUI text editors? They’re like the CLI ones, just from this millennium. We’re no longer etching runes into rocks any more either.
Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.Hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
No.
Because sure. Microsoft Word is the best IDE.
Learn the difference between a word processor and a text editor.
Guess you’re not up on your memes. Frightfully sorry for responding to what I assumed was a meme answer with a meme answer.
I personally prefer running wordpad with WINE, as I can’t afford an office subscription.
Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.
Sometimes it’s not so easy to fire up a GUI, like when you ssh into another machine.
CLI text editors have their specific use cases. For all other cases GUI ones (Kate, VSCode,…) exist.
CLI text editors have their specific use cases.
Couldn’t agree more. My use cases tend to be:
- text editor
- note taking
- IDE
- config editor
- log viewer
- adhoc data prep
- json viewer
EMACS users sometimes add web browser and email client, among other things but, that’s a bit further than I go. The perf for either of the main two blows nearly any GUI editor out of the water and being able to pipe stdout/stderr to them is just the wonderful cherry on top.
I refuse to use any GUI until people stop pronouncing it as gooey.
“Graphical UI” it is
Acceptable.
That’s “graphical oowey”, right? /s
I generally just say the letters; the amount of shit I get for saying gee en you…is not actually that much because I usually don’t interact with coding nerds via voice, only text, but if I did they would be livid
Edit: For some reason I try to pronounce Xfce as a word instead of an initialism though, ‘ecks-fiss’. Maybe I’m just broken.
Well now I’m going to pronounce it gooey even harder!
X forwarding is too much work
Accurate. The keyboard shortcuts just make sense and it’s full of features from this millennia. Like control click for multi cursor, automatic syntax highlighting, and automatic lint indicators.
uses ed
I do everything with cat, sed and awk.
Fuck your TUIs.
But how do you write your awk script?
cat > filename << ENDof course.chatgpt
May I introduce you to our Savior Helix?
Once you try Vim you will never use another text editor. Or any other program for that matter because you won’t be able to exit.
I also had that experience with emacs, which has a built in help system. I couldn’t find a topic on ‘exit’ or ‘quit’ and refused to just search online.
Took me half an hour.
and refused to just search online
Unless you were f*cked by your ISP as I am right now, that’s having some balls. Or being masochist. But nothing in between
I really didn’t want to let it win.
I’m editor bilingual but im a bit rusty in Emacs, so skill check: its C-x C-c right?
Ctrl + meta + butterfly
Yes. Though I believe it only kills the current frame if there are multiple
No, I think that exits. C-c k kills the buffer, C-x 0 (zero) will kill the frame. But I may have changed my binds and can never remember which is window and which is frame in emacs terms.
However, it’s somewhat moot as just about everywhere you run emacs, it’ll open up in gui mode and you can use the file menu. (Or use F10 to bring up the menus in terminal, but I have no idea where on the manual it would say that)
What are you running MS-DOS? laughs in multi-tasking.
I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.
I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.
I see what you did there. Lol.
Emacs
What is Again! ? Never heard of that text editor
