• dan@upvote.au
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    4 months ago

    I’ve known some fantastic developers that used Nano as their primary editor. It supports syntax highlighting, linting, and bracket matching (jumping to the matching opening bracket when a closing one is selected, and vice versa), which is enough for some people.

    Sure, it’s no micro, but it’s already installed practically everywhere.

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      4 months ago

      @tsonfeir@lemm.ee

      I have an alias to run nano with command-line flags to customize it for plain text note taking. I remove all the fluff and the status and shortcut lines from the editor so it’s just a text field. Micro is my choice for editing remote code over SSH when I don’t want to push a local file.