[ale] Time for this Grey Beard to stir up some stuff

[Jim Kinney]

Hey! Don't knock user friendly. Great cartoon. Userfriendly.org

Vimtutor. Nano got nothin'

'nuff said

:-)

On May 26, 2021 9:48:48 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Chuck Payne via Ale said on Wed, 26 May 2021 16:56:31 -0400
>
>>Good Afternoon my fellow Grey Beards,
>
>
>>
>>So I have noticed that more and more post teaching people to do stuff
>>with config or anything on the CLI, are using nano.
>
>ROFLMAO --- coke spray :-) !!!
>
>>
>>Why in Gods name would you teach them that. Is VI or VIM so hard. 
>
>Not as hard as nano. It's like a different-keystroked Wordstar without
>the help screens.
>
>> I
>>gave up on Emacs ( My first editor by the way ) years ago, but if you
>>worked on FreeBSD, you had vi. If you worked on Solaris, you had vi.
>>Linux has vi.
>>
>>I have come to love VIM, I do most of my edits in vim. 
>
>I like Vim so much I based VimOutliner on it. Vim's wonderful.
>
>
>> I enjoy color
>>syntax in vim.
>>
>>I get the joke that exit is hard if you don't know how to do :q! or
>>:wq, but Emacs was so much harder with crtl-x something, something.
>>
>>Anyway, every time I see nano, I want to scream, "You kids don't know
>>anything. Get a real editor."
>
>Can nano do block select/cut/paste? Does it enable keyboard-only people
>with the authoring speed their skills are capable of? Can it change a
>specific string on the third line below every instance of a different
>string?
>
>>
>>People who don't know the magic of doing things like %norm $T.D, to
>>delete everything after the period. Or the beauty of using sed to find
>>and replace. Truly are missing out.
>
>The more they addict people to "user friendly" (ignorant friendly
>actually), the more they can do away with POSIX to sell their Linux
>consulting and educational services.
>
>SteveT
>
>Steve Litt 
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