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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] killeronthecorner 150 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use nano without having to read anything about nano. That might be the only thing that is better about it than vim, but it's a damn important thing.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have zero patience when trying to make small adjustments to files, which is what my command line text editor should be for. Nano just has everything at the bottom in case you forget (I do, frequently) so the workflow is ridiculously streamlined for me

[–] killeronthecorner 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. It also has whole-line cut/uncut which is a godsend when working with config files

[–] indepndnt 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically, that's like the one thing I've learned to do in Vim.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Because it's easy, dd to delete a line and p to paste it somewhere else.

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

Personally I'd be somewhat nervous using dd to edit parts of a text file, but you do you :)

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

Well, if you dd+p you paste it back again, and then it's in the clipboard so you can p it in other places. In any case you can u(ndo) it without issues.

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

yy to copy, dd to cut, p to paste. Need to move 5 lines at once? No problem, move to the first line and use d5d, and p to paste it. Vim gets a bad rap for being confusing, but it's so fast to move text around once you get the hang of it.