Why nano?

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Always ignore the sensible one....

PowerFactor · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Wow, you people really know how to argue about deep issues. :roll:

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:

Damn straight.
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jwj · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 240

Is there a vi in the ports, that links statically and installs into /bin?

lightvhawk0 · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 388

Only beef with nano is that after bootstrapping I have to do a emerge nano && emerge -C nano to remove it. Other than that I can bear it. Babies!
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minhtang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 76

Well, from darksaidin post, vi maybe a good way to lower the egos of all those ego-maniacs. Give them a text file to edit with vi and watch as their face get red from not being able to handle a text editor

Hell yeah, can emacs beat that ?

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Goalie_Ca · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

Nano has really stupid linewrapping. I don't like nano -w and i don't like nano. VIM is really nice, but i can understand how n00bs would hate to use it. How many people can figure out esc+:q! or esc+dd or whatever. Last thing you want is another page in the handbook relating to vi.

That said, i think it should include both.
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placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

People always seem to have problems with accepting that some people like different things. For one thing, I like links better than lynx. However, I really don't care if you hate or whatever, because I like it so who cares? Also, nano is highly simplistic and seeing that I don't do tons of editing that requires an uber-complex editor then nano is lite and it suits me well.

Some people might want vim or whatever, well then use it. It doesn't bother me that you have another preference than me. Why does it not bother me? See, I'm not an over-opinionated baby who always wants things my way or else. I might be highly territorial like a cat, but I'm not that bad.

d0nju4n · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:02 am Post subject:

I just coudn't image a total linux n00b trying to use vi to edit config files during the gentoo install. vi is not an easy text editor to start out with
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dmartin · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:40 am Post subject:

I like chocolate pudding. Deal with it vanilla lovers.

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Hauser · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

I used to use vi a lot, but ever since I've been using gentoo I find myself using nano more and more often. I guess I'm too lazy to type emerge vim. :lol:

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abzs2k · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

If vi is part of the POSIX standard then by not including it we are just as bad as Microsoft (remember css2??).
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PowerFactor · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject:

georwell · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject:

Nano for newbies and that is a good default for Gentoo. But newbies should take up the task of learning vi. Simply because it is installed on every single Unix system you will ever use.

Not to mention it is a very very advanced text editor and will make your life easier in the long run. If you ever go for a sysadmin position and they run a quick test on you and ask you to edit some file and you use nano or pico you will already be losing points.

I like emacs too but for sshing to remote servers and working vi is still and always will be KING

Brother Dysk · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

Why vi? Emacs uber alles!

Including vi would piss off a lot of emacs-fanatics. Including emacs would piss off a lot of vi-fanatics. Inculding nano pisses off everyone, and so it's fair

Actually, nano is a great little proggie. It's no coding environment, but I don't miss any functionality when editing config files, make files, et cetera.

Stormy Eyes · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject:

By Lilith's lacy black silk panties, I can't believe you people are still arguing over whether or not vim should be included in the live CDs.

Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

I love nano because it's simple. The commands you need are right there along the bottom. I remember being pissed when I was using SuSE and had to use emacs, who wants to read a manual for editing simple text?

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Nano is simple and perfect for getting the job done IMO. I really don't think that the Gentoo devs should add vim just to appease you all. Stop arguing about it, because on a scale of one to ten, this is really retarded. Now why don't you guys[arguers] all shut up and go make a pie.

ratbert90 · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 177

vi isn't licensed under the gpl
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