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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Getting used to vim has made nano unusable for me. The muscle memory is too strong. That and all of the regex and plugin features (ex. LSP) are just too useful.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

    I had the same experience. Nano is great if you’re used to notepad or a generic, limited text editor.

    Once you learn a terminal editor like eMacs or vim, why go back? So much less hand motion going to mouse, arrows, and back.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Only a Vim user can call RegEx an advantage

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I use macros to solve most of the same problems. You just on-the-fly record a sequence of regular vim commands that you can then replay as many times as you need. Great for formatting a bunch of data without having to deal with the misery of regex

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    Also a good choice. Just never had the need since I knew a bit of regex before learning vim.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    The ability to use a powerful, standardized string query and transformation language if one wants? Yes, I do call it an advantage.