@systemd I know it's a shitpost, but nano literally...

@systemd I know it's a shitpost, but nano literally showing you at the bottom of the screen what its important commands are is one of the reasons I like it so much better :p

Like 13 May at 22:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@HunterZ @systemd i hate emacs and vim passionately. nobody has time to remember all their arcane rituals to make shit work. last time i tried to shut down emacs i gave up and just bought a new computer.

13 May at 23:52 | Open on mastodon.social

mark

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd in seriousness... the first time I used Linux I couldn't make ping stop pinging, so I pulled the plug

14 May at 0:45 | Open on mastodon.online

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@ATLeagle @HunterZ @systemd LMAO i feel this on an existential level 😁

14 May at 1:45 | Open on mastodon.social

GunChleoc

@blogdiva @ATLeagle @HunterZ @systemd I knew the DOS shortcut and it happened to be identical. Pure luck.

I keep nixing processes though when I want to copy stuff

14 May at 16:12 | Open on mastodon.scot

Jernej Simončič �

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd The one time I was stuck on a machine with only vim installed, I found it easier to edit the files with sed and cat.

14 May at 6:48 | Open on infosec.exchange

Andreas K

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd
BS. I use both, and after a decade you can usually even write basic Emacs Lisp without needing to google it.

Not that the modern Emacs with its customize interface requires much of that.

14 May at 10:48 | Open on mastodon.social

Nazo

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd The only correct way to exit emacs is pkill in another terminal. I thought everyone knew this?

12 August at 1:23 | Open on urusai.social

Coding Otaku

@nazokiyoubinbou
This, and Emacs does not overwrite files (at least I couldn't find how). You just need to replace the file you are editing with the newly created one that has the same name with a "~" appended to it.

EDIT: /s

@blogdiva @HunterZ @systemd

12 August at 14:12 | Open on fosstodon.org

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

nuke that ish to extinction. am happy with nano, TYVM

@CodingOtaku @nazokiyoubinbou @HunterZ @systemd

12 August at 15:28 | Open on mastodon.social

Nazo

@blogdiva @CodingOtaku @HunterZ @systemd Perhaps you might be interested in this then? https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc A bunch of autocompletes for syntax highlighting.

Besides the includes that their install script would create, there are some nice extras you can turn on like line numbers and etc. Here's my .nanorc minus all the includes (too long to fit):

set autoindent
unset backup
unset casesensitive
unset historylog
unset noconvert
set smarthome
set tabsize 5
set linenumbers
set titlecolor white,blue
set statuscolor white,blue
set numbercolor white,blue
set keycolor brightwhite,blue
set functioncolor white,blue
set softwrap

Not sure if that suits you or not, but if you use nano a lot it can be a bit nicer with some of these things. (And you can customize to taste naturally.)

@blogdiva @CodingOtaku @HunterZ @systemd Perhaps you might be interested in this then? https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc A bunch of autocompletes for syntax highlighting.

Besides the includes that their install script would create, there are some nice extras you can turn on like line numbers and etc. Here's my .nanorc minus all the includes (too long to fit):

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12 August at 16:51 | Open on urusai.social

Ben S.

@CodingOtaku @nazokiyoubinbou @blogdiva @systemd I've somehow managed to never use emacs, but it looks like Ctrl+X then Ctrl+S should work?

...and upon learning that emacs requires keystroke *sequences* to do simple things like this, I'm now even less likely to try it lol

12 August at 17:02 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

Gorgeous na Shock!

@HunterZ @systemd Those don't stop the muscle memory, tho! Whenever I'm stuck in a ramdisk or something with just nano I end up with a ton of :ws in whatever I'm editing. 😩

14 May at 3:17 | Open on mastodon.social

systemd

@indigoparadox sometimes, i try going down with J or ) outside vim

14 May at 8:25 | Open on wetdry.world

Space Hobo Actual

@HunterZ @systemd So do a version of this where someone literally types in ^X^X^X^X^X^X over and over.

14 May at 9:30 | Open on teh.entar.net

furicle

@HunterZ @systemd because ^ is obviously control? And you've wasted space...

14 May at 11:24 | Open on mastodon.social

Richard Hendricks

@HunterZ @systemd Nowhere does it explain that the ^ means control.

12 August at 6:23 | Open on astronomy.city

Ben S.

@hendric @systemd fair. This has been a widely-used notation for around 60 years, but I'll admit that collective memory fades over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation

12 August at 6:25 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

Can Acar

@HunterZ @systemd

shift+6+shift+x

Does not work either. Only prints ^X

Help!

17 September at 9:59 | Open on ioc.exchange