In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using nano instead of micro which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.
When you help manage thousands of servers with vim and nano already installed, it’s just faster to use one of those than installing something else nearly ever single time.
I prefer nano for quick edits of small files, but vim for hunting down things in larger files.
In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using
nano
instead ofmicro
which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.Holy cow. You can use your mouse with micro. Amazing.
And all the shortcuts are SANE, not the weird thing of
nano
You can have mouse support with nano. Alt-m toggles it on or off.
Oh wow. Weird that it defaults to off.
You can change that in the
nanorc
along with changing key binds, colors, and the like.When you help manage thousands of servers with vim and nano already installed, it’s just faster to use one of those than installing something else nearly ever single time.
I prefer nano for quick edits of small files, but vim for hunting down things in larger files.
Or you can preinstall
micro
like you preinstall everything else 😅I’m not that high on the totem pole unfortunately