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Been using linux full time for 10 years. I do most of my work system admin stuff in the terminal. But i cant for the life of me figure out vim (like i know how, but it just doesnt click for me or feel natural)… i tried a bunch of times and will keep trying… but until then, its (shamefully) nano for me

Nano because It happens to be what I learned first and I don’t get enough of a chance to use my computer anymore to even try anything else

Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.

Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

I have been learning vim specifically because of VimWiki. It’s always fun getting a few words into writing a document before realizing I wasn’t in Insert mode, then I have to figure out what I messed up.

vim, mainly cause I haven’t figured out how to quit yet.

Micro, for muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts from when I was a mostly GUI user.

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

Once you configure nano with a ~/.nanorc file, it becomes a lot more like micro/helix without having to install anything on new systems. I just curl my config and I’m good. I have Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, 2 space tabs, mouse scrolling +selection, syntax highlighting, etc. There’s a lot you can do in there, and that’s not to mention plugins.

NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.

I am a noob. My server is a MacMini running Ubuntu server because it was easy to install. I have a website, Jellyfin and nexcloud.

I don’t have the brain cells to understand VIM.

In the CLI, I use nano, always. In the GUI, I use Sublime text because the colors are very pretty.

Emacs

Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.