Favorite SSH Editor

[Cory]

Since the years I've been in the hosting field and learned a lot of commands, I've came to like one particular editor which would be pico and later basically renamed to nano.

The other editor is a 'pain in the ass' and I don't see why people like it.

It's called, vi.

I had to google for the proper commands and just to quit, If I remember it's like :q! or something whereas on nano ctrl+c or when saving it's ctrl+x and y.

If you like nano (pico) or vi, explain why.

 

[masterbator]

nano ftw! easier to operate

i guess vi users are old people who came from wordstar era

 

[Hillside]

nano, i feel more comfortable using nano than vi End

 

[warezrock]

nano FTW!!!! :D

 

[lehoangson]

I only use nano to edit file via SSH.
Command to install nano on CentOS: yum install nano

 

[Cory]

I only use nano to edit file via SSH.
Command to install nano on CentOS: yum install nano

Usually works;

Sometimes, I've had to install from source;

cd /usr/src/
wget http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/nano-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar -xf nano-2.2.6.tar.gz
cd nano-2.2.6
./configure && make && make install

Done;

 

[pippo]

vi forever :P

 

[icyboy]

i'm new to linux,using vi currently:D

 

[phpcat]

nano! so much easier to use!

 

[Tango]

I use CuteFTP SFTP to edit files :D


If it has a gui i use it :facepalm:

 

[CammyD]

I use nano.

 

[Effective]

I use nano

 

[JmZ]

vim ftw.

although the true 'editor war' is between vi(m) and emacs.
and they're just editors, not SSH editors since they work in linux & windows.

 

[NoEnD]

nano ftw! So simple.

 

[freecbc3]

i use winscp to edit file

 

[jpavsex]

NANO is best

 

[Cory]

Yep, nano is awesome.

but nobody can explain to me why people use vi when it's such an inconvenience to use; when nano is so much simpler.

 

[EnCiPh3r]

nano its awesome and easy

 

[XSLTel]

vi ..........

 

[JmZ]

Yep, nano is awesome.

but nobody can explain to me why people use vi when it's such an inconvenience to use; when nano is so much simpler.

If you think it's an inconvenience, you just don't know how to use it, to put it bluntly.

I know almost every keyboard shortcut in vim by memory, there are still a couple I fail to remember after 4 years or so of using it.

An example benefit:
I can delete a couple of lines, type something else in, copy that, paste it into another file then replace occurences of a variable i copied from that file with another variable in my code... all without ever touching my mouse or changing window, in a few keystrokes.

nano is for people who can't vim.