17 Apr
2026
17 Apr
'26
3:05 p.m.
From: Lennart Sorensen via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
I am a vim user, but I sure don't want my command line to work like vi. vim works great, is very powerful, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that doesn't already know how to use vi. Why go through learning that? Of course I wouldn't recommend emacs to anyone either.
The main editor wars candidates (decades ago) were EMACS and vi. Many people opt for the simplicity of Nano (simple, with EMACS-style keystrokes). But those are for running on a terminal (including through SSH). What do you recommend these days? For running on a terminal? For running on a Linux desktop?