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Try ~~VIM~~ Emacs instead of Nano ;)
Can also try helix! I think there is another one called kakoune but I haven't followed that for a long time
The one editor that pulled me away from Vim. Didn't think that was possible.
If you use Helix, use the nightly version from their flake since it has like a year's worth of updates compared to the last release. Or use Steelix if you want early access to plugin support.
Yeah Helix is cool. I was using it before i switched to Emacs.
I've already tried Helix quite a while ago. I went trough the entire bult-in tutorial and then never touched it again because I had no reason to back then. I'd have to start everything from scratch which is why I want to try something else now.
I know enough to know that this is blue vs red situation but not enough to know why. But your comment will likely start a war in this post soon :D
Lives have been lost in this war, but you’d be crazy to think that Emacs is not the superior editor. (Half /s)
Haha, yeah i'm just goofing around, but at the end of the day, just choose what is most interesting to you. It's kind of ironic how i got into Emacs anyway, cause before that i chose to use Helix instead of NVIM, cause i didn't want to bother spending so much time configuring it. Then i tried Guix, which is a distro that you configure in Guile Scheme, so Emacs felt like the perfect fit for that, but in the end i still spent hours configuring my Emacs lol.