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486 points ethanpil | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.081s | source
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pxc ◴[25 Jun 25 01:20 UTC] No.44372814[source]▶
I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not.

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1: https://micro-editor.github.io/

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smartmic ◴[25 Jun 25 08:32 UTC] No.44374937[source]▶
There is also dte[1]. It hits exactly the same notch and offers an extremely lean editor with Unicode support, CUA key bindings and much more. It has replaced nano as my terminal editor.

[1]: https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/

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sneak ◴[25 Jun 25 09:21 UTC] No.44375225[source]▶
Why are you opposed to learning vi which is already installed everywhere?
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1. IshKebab ◴[25 Jun 25 10:15 UTC] No.44375556[source]▶
Because vi has all the usability of a keyboard made out of hedgehogs.
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2. s1mplicissimus ◴[25 Jun 25 12:27 UTC] No.44376497[source]▶
I wouldn't consider vi usability to be overall bad. Sure, affordance ("is it easy grasp which moves i can make without affording much cognitive effort?") is terrible.

Setting up a decent environment is also a huge pain to get started with, but nowadays you can just hop into a prewarmed pool with premade setups like Normalvim or LunarVim.

But usability is not just "is it easy to learn", it's also "once i know it, how hard is it to use"

Once the moves are ingrained in your (muscle-)memory it becomes so incredibly efficient. di{, dat, yaf etc. are just the low hanging fruit, once you start with regex, macros and plugins the fun really begins.

3. sneak ◴[25 Jun 25 18:40 UTC] No.44380564[source]▶
vi isn’t usable. it sucks. but the facts are it’s installed everywhere and you can learn how to use it in 10-15 minutes. easier to patch your ignorance of basic vi than it is to install software on every machine you’ll ever edit on.