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    What is this death trap? (i.imgur.com)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What's so great on vim for the average Joe which isn't offered by nano?

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

    Reaching over to CTRL every time you want to copy some text, delete a word, delete the next character or perform any other basic edit starts to take a toll on your hands after 20 minutes

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

    Vim has things like copy and paste, including being able to highlight text, search and replace, and I find its commands a lot less clunky than Nano's. I am not a software developer or a sysadmin, just someone who uses Linux for fun. All of this stuff works without having X or Wayland running too.

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

    • Teleportation: the cursor can be teleport to any line without pressing down key multiple times...

    • Macro: for repeating a sequence of inputs multiple times...

    • Tabs: nano can't open multiple files at once i believe...

    • Split screen(horizontal and vertical)

    • Themes and plugins

    These are a few that comes to mind...

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

    Yeah, for all of those things, there's Micro.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    Yes, but the person asked comparing to nano...