GNU nano is a nice easy text editor… but it’s so clunky when you have become comfortable with vim (perhaps the same with Emacs).
The trick is to never get comfortable with Vim or Emacs.
*taps forehead*
Annoys me that “modern” in this case means whatever Microsoft does and whatever Microsoft users are used to. Especially since a lot of those “modern” binding have been around since the 80s.
“Modern” has become one of those words that’s way over used to the point of meaninglessness.
Those keybindings are prevalent outside of windows though, Ctrl+C is almost universally copy and Ctrl+V is almost universally paste - it might have been popularised by windows at some point in history but it’s well beyond that.
There’s an argument for consistency, especially with basic functions.
Lol I wasn’t aware that nano is actually a GNU project. Checking the date on Wikipedia when it became one really threw me off today morning: 2001. Man I was living behind the moon and could not exit properly the entire time!
I remember using Pico, Nano’s predecessor, in the mid-to-late '90s. Nano was created because there was a desire to distribute Pico with Linux. Unfortunately, the licensing was unclear so a clone had to be made. Fortunately there was no argument about editor appearance and behaviour.
As shocking as the 2001 date might be, it seems like Pico might have ceased development as recently as the end of 2022 along with its e-mail reader parent program Alpine (formerly Pine).
If true, Nano still has a few years to go before it will overtake its parent for longevity.
(Both vi and Emacs are far older, of course.)
