GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements
GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements
GNU nano 8.0 command line text editor for Unix-like systems is now available for download as a major update introducing new features.
GNU nano is a nice easy text editor... but it's so clunky when you have become comfortable with vim (perhaps the same with Emacs).
The trick is to never get comfortable with Vim or Emacs.
*taps forehead*
Using nano as a vim user is a lot less clunky than trying to use vim as a vim non-user though.
Or so I would imagine, all of the vim novices are still too busy trying to exit vim to share their experiences.
Neat that it has this new modern binds mode where it understands normal copy paste and stuff
I'm a little bit excited by that
I love nano for simple things, like writing commits. Anything more complex and I use Sublime Text.
Also worth checking out helix editor. Once you do the tutorial it makes vim feel clunky
I think nano is good for quick and dirty editing.
Anything else should be done locally on your development machine with a GUI, then pushed to your server as an update.
Yeah I love nano. I can use vim a little, enough to make a change and save the output. I can even exit vim!
But 9 times out of 10 if I need to edit a text file in a terminal window, I'm just making a quick config change - I need the terminal equivalent to notepad, not the terminal equivalent to an IDE.
Nano is exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.
Why insist on a GUI for anything else?
apt purge nanois one of the first things I do on a new Debian installation. Much easier to remember than having to useupdate-alternatives,select-editorand the$EDITORvariable to convince the likes ofvigr,vipw,visudo,crontab -e,... that I really want to use vim as my primary editor.Honestly unreasonably infuriates me when I enter
visudoand find myself innano... Like, did I typenanosudo? Hell no!
Lol I wasn't aware that nano is actually a GNU project. Checking the date on Wikipedia when it became one really threw me off today morning: 2001. Man I was living behind the moon and could not exit properly the entire time!
I remember using Pico, Nano's predecessor, in the mid-to-late '90s. Nano was created because there was a desire to distribute Pico with Linux. Unfortunately, the licensing was unclear so a clone had to be made. Fortunately there was no argument about editor appearance and behaviour.
As shocking as the 2001 date might be, it seems like Pico might have ceased development as recently as the end of 2022 along with its e-mail reader parent program Alpine (formerly Pine).
If true, Nano still has a few years to go before it will overtake its parent for longevity.
(Both vi and Emacs are far older, of course.)
I think nano is already accepted. There are distributions shipping nano instead Vim or Vi I think too? I'm not sure. I wouldn't trust a distro that does not have at least Vi installed. But it looks like some already come with nano by default. I wouldn't actually mind if there was vi and nano installed by default on all machines. I think nano is pretty cool and simple to use.
Annoys me that "modern" in this case means whatever Microsoft does and whatever Microsoft users are used to. Especially since a lot of those "modern" binding have been around since the 80s.
"Modern" has become one of those words that's way over used to the point of meaninglessness.
Those keybindings are prevalent outside of windows though, Ctrl+C is almost universally copy and Ctrl+V is almost universally paste - it might have been popularised by windows at some point in history but it's well beyond that.
There's an argument for consistency, especially with basic functions.
In 2024 these bindings have become commonplace in every ecosystem. Ranting about Microsoft at this point is silly.
The modern keybinds might make me drop micro for nano again
same, likely switching back after a few good years with micro.
vim > all