How I Switched to Plan 9

Re:How I Switched to Plan 9 by shakna on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:27AM (#21710372)

Nano, the simple editor every one loves to rag on for being overly simple, does actually support cursor cut n paste. (Hold shift and move the cursor. Then cut or paste.)

    set mouse
    set nowrap
    set softwrap

With those three lines in ~/.nanorc, it now allows you to click n drag the mouse, and may work over ssh, depending on your terminal support, and wraps lines without inserting actual breaks.

It effectively is Notepad, as far as I'm concerned.

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Re:How I Switched to Plan 9 by iteratorloopmap on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:02AM (#21712302)

nano isn't very weak, I have modified nanorc substantially and also have binded many keys. It works better than, say, notepad++ on windows.

For those who aren't touch typists, or occasional users, nano is just more comfort than vim or emacs.

And there is a editor named `micro`, which is similar to nano but has more features including bracket completion etc.. I am delaying switch because it is written in go (being unavailable in repos) and anyway I haven't found time to configure it. But it is scriptable in lua..

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