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wolfiton • Edited

Odd in Kubuntu, Nano is the default, Manjaro and I think in Fedora too.

Can you work with vi?(because I can't)

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Michiel Hendriks

Debian defaults to nano or nano-tiny for the smaller installs. Thus Debian derivatives, like Ubuntu, generally include nano in the base install.

Vi is long dead, and not even included in any Linux distribution for a long time. Vi is actually vim in vi-mode. I don't like either (vi nor vim). Give me nano, pico, emacs, jove, ...

Every time I execute a command which puts me into vim is followed by a bunch of offensive words and ESC key presses. I know how to use Vim, for basic stuff, but I hate it.

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wolfiton • Edited

I personally don't hate it or love it. I find it useful sometimes to just edit small parts of configs. For bigger parts I usually use nano.

But the ability to delete the whole row with dd, shouldn't be ignored either.

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Ben Sinclair

Vim is love, Vim is life.