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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by pevey on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:27PM (#30188189)
They are both wrong. Pico/nano.
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by nsxwolf on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:39PM (#30188281)
No, ed. The standard editor.
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by tpoacher on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:20AM (#30191518)
Wtf, just punch holes in the cards like the rest of us, billy!
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by nikau on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:35AM (#30190512)
?
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by pas on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:52AM (#30190613)
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by nikau on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:38AM (#30218768)
joke was the default error message in ed is `?`
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by pas on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:35PM (#30224957)
Ah! My lack of beard is showing! Oh noes :))) Thanks for the explanation!
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by mplabelspace on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:33PM (#30195570)
This human gets it
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by netizen-936824 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:07AM (#30192538)
Nano gang rep

Not that I actually use it for anything substantial, I just prefer it over vi for quick edits

Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by hbogert on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:32AM (#30204260)
haha the estranged faces I get when I fire up nano on a remote server. For crying out loud people... I'm going to comment a single line; stop vanitizing your hotfix routine by enforcing some self-made requirement of only using one single editor
Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by netizen-936824 on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:30AM (#30205939)
Nano is nearly ubiquitous making it great for these small edits, and it was easy to pick up as it has the common key combos listed at the bottom of the screen. When I was learning Linux this made things smoother than they could have been with other CLI editors. Vi took me a while to get used to and I had to look up commands, but I still install nano when I need it.

I get lost when working on centos.

-bash: nano: command not found

-bash: apt: command not found

~OS swap was highly effective, sysadmin is confused~

(Yes this is a joke)

Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by TigeriusKirk on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:32PM (#30195565)
I use nano exclusively for my live server code edits.