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A new major release of open source text editor GNU nano is here. GNU nano 3.0 reads files 70% faster and brings several other features.
GNU nano is one of the most popular terminal based text editors. Those who keep forgetting how to exit Vim, seek refuge with GNU nano. It's a godsend for beginners who have to deal with editing in the command line while the experienced nano fans just swear by it.
I wouldn't normally consider a new version of a text editor really newsworthy but a 70% read speed increase is interesting to investigate even if only for an example of how not to do things from the prior versions.
Source: https://itsfoss.com/nano-3-release/
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(Score: 3, Informative) by engblom on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:43PM (4 children)
Why is Joe almost never mentioned as an easy to use alternative to Vim or Emacs? Joe is so much more powerful than Nano, but still the same easy to use. Joe was the editor I used for many years before I switched over to Vim myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:24PM (1 child)
"mc" and "joe" are indispensable for linux users that are ...uhm ... just normal computer users.
some, like joe, just sit in a bar with a cigi in the corner of the mouth and a beer on the piano and some are dressed in a tuxedo, bow and dazzle the auditorium for an hour :]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @03:29PM
the other day joe told me that "vi" is just a english bastardization of the german "wie?" (adverb).
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday September 16 2018, @07:15PM
Huge joe fan here too. I love the syntax highlighting. I can use vi/vim if I have to. Fired up emacs once. Okay, I get it, great if someone likes it. Nano is natural for me because I use pine/alpine. Joe is always one of the first packages I install on a Linux system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @08:03PM
The one thing about joe that bothers me sometimes is its weird search/replace syntax. Fortunately, if I want regex, ^k/sed is right there.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I think powerful all-in-one editors were a mistake, and we should have simpler editors that would focus on display (e.g. syntax coloring), basic visual editing, and various ways of selecting text for filtering through external programs, combined with a suite of standalone programs (in addition to the standard ones like fmt, fold, tac, tr, etc.) for such filtering.