Both nano and emacs suffer from the same problem - bad defaults. You need to pass like ten options to nano for it to work as expected to edit configuration files and small scripts.
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# nano --help | tail -n1 -/ --modernbindings Use better-known key bindings # cat /etc/debian_version 13.6
Nano has proper copy/pate, it works identical to any text editor. Mark -> copy/cut -> paste
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Turing machine isn’t a ‘conventional computer’ in any way it’s a model not asomething that can be implemented as described. Philosophical weight has little value anywhere. Author tried to reframe increasingly cultish bullshit that ‘ai’ crowd loves to push.
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7·4 months agoThere are messages with generic recommendations and post upgrade/post install scripts. They are rarely used because it goes against arch’s principles to run some (maybe fragile) script on your system. Reading news once a week/month before upgrade isn’t that inconvenient.
alias nano='nano -A -D -E -F -T 4 -Z -g -i -l -m -q -t -% -_'and you need to enable syntax highlighting in nanorc (not all distros enable it by default)include /usr/share/nano/*.nanorcalso there are additional/improved rules for highlighting here https://github.com/galenguyer/nano-syntax-highlighting and you can rebind every key, but it seems that it doesn’t support ‘chaining’ of keys nor multiple modifier keys at the same time.