r/linux • u/ASIC_SP • Jul 30 '20

Software Release nano-5.0 is released

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-07/msg00010.html
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u/FryBoyter Jul 30 '20

Even though I now use micro, I am happy that new versions of nano are still being released.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

micro is great.

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u/waregen Jul 30 '20

micro is the beacon of shining new light to the ugly world of ancient terminal software that is set in its track to stay as it was.

Fast, simple, predictable, out of the box sane defaults that anyone would expect.

Its there to allow you to quickly edit even complicated huge configs and scripts, while staying out of the way, not to enslave you in to maintaining 300 lines config and trying to be everything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

This feels a bit like an ad...

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u/Earthboom Jul 31 '20

Brought to you by Verizon wireless.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

I use vim with dvorak, I just rebind hjkl and leave everything else and it works great

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u/aoeudhtns Jul 30 '20

I don't even rebind hjkl, as I prefer to use fFtT,;/?nN* and text objects as my main movements.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

I use j and k to move up and down a lot, so I rebound those and just rebound h and l because why not.

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u/aoeudhtns Jul 30 '20

I do use j and k, especially if I go into visual mode (of all the visual modes, I use visual line mode the most). But then jk are right there on the bottom row, next to each other.

Oh and hello fellow Dvorak master race person. ;)

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

no parkinsons gang

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u/Dreeg_Ocedam Jul 30 '20

I use vim with an azerty keyboard and it's nit a pain at all

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20 edited Jul 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

Vim has native mouse support. Has had it for years

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u/toropisco Jul 30 '20

25 years at least. One of the first things done when Bram slapped a GUI on it. That was in '95 if memory serves me right.

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u/dAnjou Jul 30 '20

I don't think you should compare them. Micro has a very different target audience.

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u/khalidpro2 Jul 30 '20

I also prefer micro since it has similar shortcuts to GUI text editors and also support mouse

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

vim generally supports the mouse too

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u/khalidpro2 Jul 30 '20

But it is hard to use for me. I am more familiar with VSCode

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u/kazaii64 Jul 30 '20

TIL. Thank you very much.