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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using nano instead of micro which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When you help manage thousands of servers with vim and nano already installed, it's just faster to use one of those than installing something else nearly ever single time.

I prefer nano for quick edits of small files, but vim for hunting down things in larger files.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or you can preinstall micro like you preinstall everything else 😅

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I'm not that high on the totem pole unfortunately

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Holy cow. You can use your mouse with micro. Amazing.

[–] Gort@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can have mouse support with nano. Alt-m toggles it on or off.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow. Weird that it defaults to off.

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

You can change that in the nanorc along with changing key binds, colors, and the like.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

And all the shortcuts are SANE, not the weird thing of nano

[–] RandomlyRight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve discovered it just a few days ago and now use it on all my machines