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I use micro. It's 1000x better.
Today I learned about the existence of "milli" and "kilo", both of which are terminal-based text editors! Quite interesting. I wonder if there are any more SI unit prefix text editors...
Holding out for a cursed deca
Pico...I'm going the wrong direction
Ugh. At least two decades I've used them and never made that connection. Thank you. And curse you. lol
Peta
I was coming here to say "what about micro?"
Nano with a few config options by default?
Doesn't come standard like nano tho for a lot of distros
barely an inconvenience, you're one curl away from it
Assuming you have internet access lmao
idk if I ever set up a new machine without internet access, but sure
there are corner cases you'll need to use what's available. They should be exceptions.