Not our fault everyone blows past the kind offer of : vimtutor on startup! (I kid. The default editor shouldn’t require a class.)
You’re 100% correct. Nano is a perfectly reasonable default.
That said, it is 2026. It also wouldn’t kill us to default to an interactive one-time prompt that defaults to nano, but offers one or two others, and removes itself after setting the user’s choice.
Like it cannot print invisible characters.
I was looking at an option to display invisible characters in Kate like last week. So it got better, I guess.
haha!
Sometimes I feel like my side of the holy war isn’t engaging in completely good faith.
I might switch sides to emacs if my fingers were long enough to reach the key combinations.
Maybe I’ll go try it, anyway!
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What was the command to exit vi, again…?
kate is fantastic, all around.
Ctrl+Alt+V makes the key bindings tolerable. (Vi mode)
Yes. Lack of :r! is what keeps me from using most editors that aren’t vim.
There’s so many things I don’t remember well enough to type accurately from memory, but I know the command to fetch quickly.
“You’re absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location.”
Let’s be sure to name and shame, for anyone who missed it: Georgia and Florida.
Company is - you guessed it - Flock. (Mention of Flock in the article has been removed with a correction.)
Good advice.
Of course, some developers circumvent this by not adding DRM to their game.
Can’t waste dev time fucking with an esoteric key system if they don’t first waste dev time writing an esoteric key system.