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why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.

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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Please file a bug with the Debian maintainers.

How are people supposed to edit files without the standard editor?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    with nano? /uj maybe it was an option during the install, IDK, I don't want to bother the folks with a suspicion and a shitty memory, nor do I want to reinstall deb somewhere else

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I was joking, definitely don’t write them to install an editor that’s obsolete.

    sed and grep (both inspired by ed) to do most of what ed does in a modern way, and ed was only useful over teletype when it was slow/expensive to render a scrollable field.

    All modern TTYs support scroll regions, and with sed it just doesn’t make sense to use ed anymore.

    ed as the standard editor is mostly a meme based on this page https://wiki.c2.com/?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor

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