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I was going to mention nano

when you just wanna edit things quick and only need to remember a few commands. just wish it came standard with most distros.



nano is such a lifesaver. It's pure Unix – does one job really well, doesn't try to be half an IDE like vi and friends, just a friendly little text editor that pretty much everyone can use within minutes. Nothing better for quick edits on remote systems beside never having to do quick edits on remote systems.


I used joe, pico, nano since 1994 and someday I will finally change the key bindings so that I have this in mline with my vscode.

This is by far the biggest drawback of switching editors and being lazy at the same time.


Ah I forgot about pico! I used to have way to crash it every time, something to do with the word wrapping. But it stopped being developed so we switched to nano.




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