I personally have nano on all systems I can get to. The reason is
simple, I'm to lazy to bother learning vim, not that it's command
structure would help me to much, seeing that I use the left-handed
Dvorak keyboard anyway.
Warm regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
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On 2021/11/29 23:48, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
See I usually throw a terminal/console text editor in on any CLI only
systems/installs for that reason, or for working in a TTY when I want
to edit stuff or am on an SSH connection. It's always nice to have a
simple, easy to use editor in my pocket so if my desktop falls over or
I need to SSH into a machine I can just do nano filename and get right
to work without having to fight an editor that thinks it knows what I
want. No. I just want to get in, edit text, save, and get things donen.
On 11/29/21 21:31, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Unless you are running a text-only installation, installing from
scratch, editing configs before you have a desktop environment
installed or working remotely, your best bet is going to be whatever
editor comes with your desktop environment. Usually that will be
either pluma on the MATE desktop, gedit on the GNOME desktop, or you
may have leafpad or mousepad installed. Any of these give you very
easy cut/copy/paste functionality, easy to use find/replace pop-up
windows and a fully accessible menu system for doing other things.
All these editors are fully accessible to Orca and are found in your
accessories menu or its equivalent depending on your desktop.
If you are looking for a terminal-based text editor, usually for
installing a system manually or working remotely via ssh, the best
and easiest to use by far is nano, although I usually like to use
pluma even over ssh, since sshfs mounts my servers as if they are on
the local disk, so I get access to every file on my servers just as
if they are right on the computer I'm using to access them. I have
edited server configs and even websites in this way.
Forget EMACS. I gave up on that crap after 5 minutes of mucking about
in it, and emacspeak didn't make it any better. A text editor should
make it as easy as possible to edit text, and that is all. It
shouldn't require a computer science degree, nor should it try to be
a complete desktop that tries to turn every application into an
editor. The editors I mention here are mostly straight-forward, with
the possible exception of nano, which is mostly consistent with pico,
but not so consistent with any other desktop editor, and they all do
what they should and nothing extra or overly complicated. If you want
complicated text handling and word processing, LibreOffice Writer is
the way to go, as it's a sophisticated word processor, not a text
editor.
~Kyle
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