Which text editor do you use?
Why would you need a text editor when you can just do
cat > file?smh
This command will literally overwrite the file that you do whenever you try to edit it. You need two >> to append at the end of a file, but it’s super-duper hard to put text in the middle of a file from the terminal. That is why people use editors, for sure. Now that I think about it, there probably is some psychopath who uses the actual command line as an editor. They’re probably more elitist than Vim users lol.
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.
My requirements for a text editor:
- it displays ‘A’ when I press the ‘A’ key
- doesn’t require more than 1 minute of learning to use it
Bonus points if it comes pre installed.
I’m a emacs guy, but nano should be the only one installed by default. The default editor should tell you how to exit!
Not our fault everyone blows past the kind offer of
: vimtutoron startup! (I kid. The default editor shouldn’t require a class.)You’re 100% correct. Nano is a perfectly reasonable default.
That said, it is 2026. It also wouldn’t kill us to default to an interactive one-time prompt that defaults to nano, but offers one or two others, and removes itself after setting the user’s choice.
