Librarium
Settings

Move Over Vim - The Nano and Micro Editors Are Here!

OldTechBloke
technologybest text editorbest text editor for beginnerscustomising nano editorlinuxlinux micro text editormicro editormicro editor colorschemesmicro editor pastemicro editor pluginsmicro editor split screenmicro editor syntax highlightingnano editornano editor linuxnano editor shortcutsnano editor tutorialnano editor vs vimnano text editorold tech bloke youtubeoldtechblokeoldtechbloke youtubeotbterminal text editortext editorvim editor

Vim is a brilliant and very powerful text editor, but the truth is that not everyone is comfortable using it and there are a number of much simpler alternatives available for people who only require a terminal editor for occasional light use.

Nano and Micro are two contenders here. Both are incredibly simple and offer the functionality that many people need, and who don't want to go through the process of memorising the content of the vimtutor.

Nano is old school, but its overall look and feel can be improved with a configuration file, and micro is a more modern implementation of a simple editor, but still very similar to nano in many ways.

In this video I do a quick look see at both nano and micro as they are probably more than powerful for most of the jobs that desktop users need an editor to do.

I haven't mentioned emacs here because, well, I've never used it and don't really have a use case for it.

I hope you enjoy the video :-)

If you enjoy my channel and/or find it useful, you can support me in a number of ways.

  1. If you would like to become a Patron, my page is here: https://www.patreon.com/oldtechbloke

  2. If you would like to order OTB merchandise, I now have a Spreadshirt shop and a Teespring shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/oldtechbloke/pateron https://teespring.com/stores/otbs-store?aid=marketplace&tsmac=marketplace&tsmic=thank_you

  3. if you want to buy me a beer, I've now launched my new website and you'll find a PayPal button for that very purpose: https://www.oldtechbloke.com

If you chose any of the above options you will be helping to keep the channel going and I am extremely grateful.

You can also join me on the following:

To join LBRY please click the link below. As a disclaimer, I will earn LBRY points if you use the link so thanks for the support https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@oldtechbloke:8

To join the OldTechBloke Facebook group click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldtechbloke

To join the OldTechBloke subreddit click here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OldTechBloke/

To view my GitLab repo: https://gitlab.com/OldTechBloke

Ramble On! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFbpOcAtwH4

2021-11-27
0.01950454 LBC
Copyrighted (contact publisher)

130400030 Bytes