First steps with the Nano text editor

PragmaticLinux ^ | 18 May 2020 | PragmaticLinux

[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

[glorgau]

It’s so sad that these people don’t acknowledge the innate superiority of vi. All other text editors pale before it. Especially emacs.

(trying to start a flame war ;-)

[Pollard]

Stuff like this scares people away from linux. There are plenty of gui text editors for linux. Mousepad and leafpad are two that are equivalent to notepad but unlike notepad, they can be used to write code too.

[DEPcom]

Ping good article. Nice review. It has been a while since I work with Linux. I used Linux while in collage for C/C++ classes.

I am starting to get back into Linux since Microsoft release WSL and Docker. I am Exploring containers on Linux servers to host ASP.net web application.

Linux GUI apps coming to Windows 10 WSL along with GPU access

[DEPcom]

“There are plenty of gui text editors for linux.”

I use Visual Code for editing on Linux, Mac, and Windows 10. Another good GUI editor is Notepad++. Both are free and support many languages.

[StormEye]

I like vi to.
I've used it for decades.

[Montana_Sam]

Never used 'nano' until using raspberry pi's. Now I use it all the time, even on this Fedora system [just updated to v 32], for editing small config files. When first starting Linux, RedHat 5.x, I was using emacs or vi, but that seemed overkill for editing small files.
Linux is all I use here at home (the wife still uses Windows 7). Fedora Mate Compiz spin on this big box, and raspbian - now Buster - with Compiz on the raspberry pi 4's.
Not being a gamer, no reason to use Windows. Have to use Windows 10 at work, but it's nowhere nearly as user friendly for me. For instance, using Caja file browser on Linux, I can have two folders open side-by-side in a single window, simplifying copying/moving files between machines. Similar for using Konsole for terminal/command line work, with multiple tabs available. Linux works the way I think.
That's my story. Have been using Linux as my primary home system for nearly twenty years.

[Pollard]

I like sublime, also multi-platform, for code. In my case, code is html/css and very occasionally, php.

[Flick Lives]

Stuff like this scares people away from linux. There are plenty of gui text editors for linux.

Linux/unix editors predate modern GUI-based computer systems. They are there because at the time, it was all there was. Amazing, really, that all modern servers and even desktop machines, like Macs, are running Unix under the hood; an OS invented back in the 1960s. I guess it points to UNIX's rock solid simplicity that it is in use to this day.

[ThunderSleeps]

Time to start the religious war - when going minimal it's vi or nothing! ;-)

Then again don't listen to me, I'm continuing my journey into penguin inspired madness... Not satisfied with wandering around the Debian family tree for years and a half dozen or so distros I'm now experimenting with an Arch based distro...

I guess when I start building and packaging my own from source I'll know my descent into madness is complete.

[ShadowAce]

Similar for using Konsole for terminal/command line work, with multiple tabs available.

Try Terminator for your terminal. It's all I use now. Very powerful, and scriptable. For instance, at work, I do some admin on a couple of clusters. I have configs for terminator that will open multiple tabs, divide some tabs into multiple sections, and log into each node and put them all into a group just by clicking one icon on my desktop. That allows me to enter a command just once, and every node in the cluster will run it. I know--I could use pdsh, but this is more fun, and some nodes may fail. It allows me to watch the progress of my work easier. It's very cool.

Linux works the way I think.

Same here. I have a very difficult time working in Windows.

Have been using Linux as my primary home system for nearly twenty years.

Yup. I've run every version of Fedora except for 13. I was trying an experiment to just install every other version at that time, and decided that was not worth it. I started with Fedora Core 1, and haven't looked back.

[ShadowAce]

I guess when I start building and packaging my own from source I'll know my descent into madness is complete.

Here ya go

[CodeToad]

It’s sad that in 2020 people are still using 45 year old command line editors, thinking they are necessary.

[dinodino]

I work on embedded systems, and vi is the only option.

[zeugma]

It’s sad that in 2020 people are still using 45 year old command line editors, thinking they are necessary.

If all you have is a terminal connection to a system, a gui editor isn't going to do you much good. Personally, I prefer to use vi, but any console editor that you know works as far as I'm concerned. Also, if a 45 year old program works, why not use it? Newer /= better in all cases.

[ShadowAce]

It’s sad that in 2020 people are still using 45 year old command line editors, thinking they are necessary.

What's sad is people who think that an editor good enough to last for 45 years isn't good enough to use.

[CodeToad]

What’s sad are the people who choose to use it because they think it makes them a real programmer. VI and Emacs are crap and always were crap.

[CodeToad]

“If all you have is a terminal connection to a system, a gui editor isn’t going to do you much good.”

Actually, it can. Think s l o w l y about this. If you are connected, your computer can do what it wants including presenting a file in a GUI.

[CodeToad]

Even the PC BIOS has moved to GUI.