Re:Nano 5.7
by fouric on Thursday April 29, 2021 @12:52PM
(#26983546)
> Nano is great for editing config / text files quickly
emacsclient makes it just as easy to edit a text file extremely quickly with Emacs as to open a new vim or nano in place.
> emacs [...] initial learning curve is a bit low but then it gets higher and higher
Emacs's difficulty is, for simple editing cases that you could use nano for, only a little bit more difficult than nano, and certainly easier than vim - no modal editing, and you can learn the essential shortcuts (save, undo, open, close) in very little time.
I don't agree that the learning curve increases - more complex things require that you learn more about Emacs, sure, but my experience has been that it's about as easy to go from beginner to intermediate Vim knowledge as it is in Emacs, if not slightly easier due to the latter's better design and documentation.
emacsclient makes it just as easy to edit a text file extremely quickly with Emacs as to open a new vim or nano in place.
> emacs [...] initial learning curve is a bit low but then it gets higher and higher
Emacs's difficulty is, for simple editing cases that you could use nano for, only a little bit more difficult than nano, and certainly easier than vim - no modal editing, and you can learn the essential shortcuts (save, undo, open, close) in very little time.
I don't agree that the learning curve increases - more complex things require that you learn more about Emacs, sure, but my experience has been that it's about as easy to go from beginner to intermediate Vim knowledge as it is in Emacs, if not slightly easier due to the latter's better design and documentation.
> emacs [...] can't be found everywhere
TRAMP has been around for two decades now, making this largely irrelevant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26982916