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This has been a configurable option since forever.
Sane defaults still have value.
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I would recommend micro. It's simple like nano, but has full mouse support. The only real downside is that it's not installes by default.
So one day someone will write the improvement and call it milli, but then what? Is there a prefix for 10^0? Do these people not plan ahead?
"nano" is an interesting creature - it was originally developed as a replacement for the "pico" command that shipped with "pine" (an amazing curses-based email client) because the license on pico was just not really clear. I still use nano 50% of the time because it's so easy to jump into a file, make some quick changes, and jump out. Plus the mark/cut/paste keystrokes are seared into my memory after years of use.
I would recommend micro. It's simple like nano, but has full mouse support. The only real downside is that it's not installes by default.
It's amazing how, no matter how old or small a piece of software is, as long as it keeps being used, itremains a living thing and keeps on changing and evolving.
>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped. Finally. It was one of the most insane defaults in the history of text editors. Things like this are the reason why it's so hard to recommend nano to beginners.
"nano" is an interesting creature - it was originally developed as a replacement for the "pico" command that shipped with "pine" (an amazing curses-based email client) because the license on pico was just not really clear. I still use nano 50% of the time because it's so easy to jump into a file, make some quick changes, and jump out. Plus the mark/cut/paste keystrokes are seared into my memory after years of use.
I also used nano quite a bit for quick editing tasks, but that changed after I learned Vim.
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I guess I had assumed that vi/vim was significantly more widespread than nano. Maybe that's an outdated assumption? I feel like I've come across a few instances where vi has been the only choice...
"nano" is an interesting creature - it was originally developed as a replacement for the "pico" command that shipped with "pine" (an amazing curses-based email client) because the license on pico was just not really clear. I still use nano 50% of the time because it's so easy to jump into a file, make some quick changes, and jump out. Plus the mark/cut/paste keystrokes are seared into my memory after years of use.
Being an Emacs user I use Zile for that since it's effectively a trimmed-down version of Emacs. Of course unlike nano it's not usually installed by default on most distros, so I still have to use nano or vi from time to time, but I can't say I enjoy it very much.
emacs -nw -Q