I'm team nano, I'm not smart enough to use the other two and for whenever I need to open a text file in terminal only environment once every year I can remember how to navigate nano. So I'll keep using nano.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

It has nothing to do with intelligence. vi and emacs are just rote memorization and also endless installation of plugins and configuration. They are slow to pick up, but very powerful and also ergonomic once you know what to do.

A modern GUI like CSCode is faster to pickup and immediately very powerful.

A good emacs or vim configuration tailored to your needs can stay with you for decades. It’s stable, reliable, and does everything already. vim has released less than one point update per year for more than 2 years. During that time Sublime and VSCode had dozens, if not hundreds.

For most people the choice of editor doesn’t make a huge difference. They spend far more time reading than writing code.

Nano is the right choice for you.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use emacs but it's only convenient to me with a lot of custom stuff on top. Vanilla emacs tho, hell no.

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

neovim user (inside zellij) and same. More of a full blown IDE than an editor.

Also for the keybind memory impaired like myself:

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, I’ve gradually gone from using vim motions in VSCode to using Neovim with basically all the functionality I need for backend (.NET and TypeScript) and infrastructure work.

There are still some things I have to rebuild some muscle memory for, but it’s been great. I haven’t made it to zellij yet but that’s the next step.