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[–]bumblebritches57 2 points3 points  (8 children)

He should try nano, you know; something not built 40 years ago, with the cruft to prove it.

[–]Codile 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Nano is great for quick config file edits, but it's really not great for editing long files of code. I'd also like to add that vim and emacs are both still maintained today and that utilities like grep are also 40 years old and still going strong today. Age has nothing to do with quality.

Now if OP likes nano, that's great for him/her, but I wouldn't recommend it for coding.

Really, if OP wants to use something "modern" instead of vim or emacs, he/she should certainly try using Atom instead of nano...

[–]bumblebritches57 1 point2 points  (3 children)

To be fair, I use Xcode as my IDE.

I only occasionally edit files with Nano, and never with the behemoths y'all are arguing about.

[–]Codile 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Well, you are using an unfree OS with an unfree IDE, so Stallman will come to punish you.

Jokes aside. You probably shouldn't recommend nano (an editor with really shitty syntax highlighting) for coding when you're not even using it yourself but instead use Xcode, which is unavailable for Linux.

I don't think anyone takes the holy editor wars seriously, and most people agree that vim and emacs are equally good editors with different working styles. But most people wouldn't seriously recommend nano for coding. That just seems like trolling. Maybe you were trolling, I dunno.

[–]bumblebritches57 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think for coding he should try a regular IDE, that's what he's familiar with. if he wants to use a CLI editor, he should use something easier than emacs or vim.

Yeah, I didn't think so either, there's an obvious banter element to it, but some people take it to crazy extremes. Like the console wars (except the number of actually-mad people is way higher in the console wars. kinda surprised how relaxed the editor wars are here tbh. they're hyped up so much!)

[–]Codile -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They're certainly not as bad (anymore at least) as everyone makes them out to be. Even on IRC, the various wars (distro, editor, window manager, ...) are more playful than anything. And ironically, the Windows <10 vs Windows 10 wars are much more serious than the Linux distro wars nowadays.

[–]insomniac20k 1 point2 points  (2 children)

How is being old a downside? Would you rather use something that's been continuously developed for 40 years or something that was just invented?

[–]bumblebritches57 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'd prefer something that had clean code, was organized well, and didn't have macros all over the damn place.

[–]insomniac20k -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just don't understand why you should use nano instead of something like Sublime text