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Ctrl-K and Ctrl-U in nano, a sane editor that does not hate you
Ctrl-X Ctrl-V in micro, if you appreciate a sane editor with sane keybindings.
"Sane" keybindings are questionable given Ctrl's location (painful to press with both pinky and thumb fingers). It's standard, I'll give it that, but those in helix or vim are mostly (I'm looking at you, navigation between splits) much saner all things considered
That's cool, and I can't wait for it to gain widespread adoption, but nano is already more commonly installed by default.
How does micro compare to nano?
It's 1,000 times larger.
oh, you...
better ootb experience with syntax highlighting, sane keybindings, plugin system, and other little things nano lacks.
Nano has had syntax highlighting for quite a while.
Its keybindings also make sense if your brain is still stuck in the '90s. If not, they're literally printed at the bottom of the terminal.
If I need plugins, I'm not gonna be fucking around with a terminal text editor.
What are these "other little things?" Certainly not "probably already installed on your system."
How do I do regex or connect to an LSP with nano?
That's the neat part: you don't.
Fair enough. Those are things that I like to be able to use, however. Which makes nano/pico/micro a non-starter for me. Different strokes for different folks.
Well, they're not necessary for 99.999% of what you need a quick CLI text editor for.
The use-cases for unquick GUI text editors are merely a subset of those solved by quick TUI text editors :P
Doesn't that just cut one line at a time? Or is this Emacs-like, where it buffers the lines?
That host doesn't have internet access, though, so installing a different editor wasn't really an option to begin with...
If the host doesn't already have nano, you fucked up super early
But yeah, it buffers the lines.