What is the easiest and most accessible editor?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I personally have nano on all systems I can get to. The reason is 
simple, I'm to lazy to bother learning vim, not that it's command 
structure would help me to much, seeing that I use the left-handed 
Dvorak keyboard anyway.


Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

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On 2021/11/29 23:48, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> See I usually throw a terminal/console text editor in on any CLI only 
> systems/installs for that reason, or for working in a TTY when I want 
> to edit stuff or am on an SSH connection. It's always nice to have a 
> simple, easy to use editor in my pocket so if my desktop falls over or 
> I need to SSH into a machine I can just do nano filename and get right 
> to work without having to fight an editor that thinks it knows what I 
> want. No. I just want to get in, edit text, save, and get things donen.
>
>
>
> On 11/29/21 21:31, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Unless you are running a text-only installation, installing from 
>> scratch, editing configs before you have a desktop environment 
>> installed or working remotely, your best bet is going to be whatever 
>> editor comes with your desktop environment. Usually that will be 
>> either pluma on the MATE desktop, gedit on the GNOME desktop, or you 
>> may have leafpad or mousepad installed. Any of these give you very 
>> easy cut/copy/paste functionality, easy to use find/replace pop-up 
>> windows and a fully accessible menu system for doing other things. 
>> All these editors are fully accessible to Orca and are found in your 
>> accessories menu or its equivalent depending on your desktop.
>>
>> If you are looking for a terminal-based text editor, usually for 
>> installing a system manually or working remotely via ssh, the best 
>> and easiest to use by far is nano, although I usually like to use 
>> pluma even over ssh, since sshfs mounts my servers as if they are on 
>> the local disk, so I get access to every file on my servers just as 
>> if they are right on the computer I'm using to access them. I have 
>> edited server configs and even websites in this way.
>>
>> Forget EMACS. I gave up on that crap after 5 minutes of mucking about 
>> in it, and emacspeak didn't make it any better. A text editor should 
>> make it as easy as possible to edit text, and that is all. It 
>> shouldn't require a computer science degree, nor should it try to be 
>> a complete desktop that tries to turn every application into an 
>> editor. The editors I mention here are mostly straight-forward, with 
>> the possible exception of nano, which is mostly consistent with pico, 
>> but not so consistent with any other desktop editor, and they all do 
>> what they should and nothing extra or overly complicated. If you want 
>> complicated text handling and word processing, LibreOffice Writer is 
>> the way to go, as it's a sophisticated word processor, not a text 
>> editor.
>> ~Kyle
>>
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