Which text editor do you use?

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    First choice: use a normal damn GUI text editor

    Second choice: Nano. It’s simple and comprehensible, and a best CLI choice for newbies. You can then turn to vim, emacs, or whatever, but don’t make your life harder from the get-go

    People suggesting to start with Vim are probably the same ones pushing for Arch as a first distro. C’mon.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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      use a normal damn GUI text editor

      The right choice as long as you don’t want to edit code/config files. Trust me, writing code inside libre office is not fun.

    • zerofk@lemmy.zip
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      That’s how you breed scrubs who can’t M-x-butterfly. I say give them a distro that boots into vi and starts a background process that block internet access around them. If they manage to quit vi and kill the daemon, they’re ready for Linux.