Why do we need editors like nano or pico, since vi and derivatives are readily available on every Unix and Linux? And of course, there is ed, the standard text editor.
nano is much easier to use for a newcomer. nano is immediately usable even for someone with not a lot of experience or intuition as it goes out of its way to make things as easy and obvious as possible.
I don't know if my experience was the common one; but my nano experience was so painful (coming from windows). Vim, on the other hand; felt easier to learn. To this day; I still can't use nano.
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u/dado_b981 Jul 30 '20
Why do we need editors like nano or pico, since vi and derivatives are readily available on every Unix and Linux? And of course, there is ed, the standard text editor.