Post AcctAVw2xGEDK5gSie by darkcyberman@nerdculture.de
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 (DIR) Post #AccrgaTzNoXSmjj5Ga by mttaggart@infosec.town
       2023-12-09T07:23:10.872Z
       
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       Microsoft is considering shipping a default text editor in Terminal! Go tell 'em what it should be (the correct answer is Nano). github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440
       
 (DIR) Post #Accs4a9uEscMjLm3Y8 by tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca
       2023-12-09T07:26:26Z
       
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       @mttaggart Uh, I... guess? I mean, nano does tell you what keystrokes to use for different functions, handy if you haven't learned something else.I was actually a bit surprised to find it set up on this NixOS laptop, since it's not a package I installed directly.
       
 (DIR) Post #Accs4awTKJSx9yUqFU by mttaggart@infosec.town
       2023-12-09T07:27:30.423Z
       
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       @tim_lavoie That's my exact point. Look, I love Vim so much I wrote a course on it. But the default CLI editor for a Windows terminal? Nah, you gotta have a low barrier to entry for that.
       
 (DIR) Post #Acct09DWZ79Jy5uqBs by tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca
       2023-12-09T07:34:38Z
       
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       @mttaggart Yeah, but I think I'd be surprised if they defaulted people to something that had non-Win-standard key bindings for things like opening and saving a file. You know, instead of something acting like the editor that came in the ancient pine email client.Now, if "Pine Is Not Elm", what was the default editor in Elm, or was there one?
       
 (DIR) Post #Acct0A4LOjOsbud1WK by mttaggart@infosec.town
       2023-12-09T07:37:52.868Z
       
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       @tim_lavoie I have no idea what any of those things are, sorry. But keybindings (which are clearly marked and changeable) notwithstanding, I feel like among CLI text editor users, Nano is pretty well established as a common denominator and would be a reasonable expectation for modern users—especially users who might be interested in WSL.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcctAVw2xGEDK5gSie by darkcyberman@nerdculture.de
       2023-12-09T07:38:11Z
       
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       @mttaggart edit.exe? Does this still ship with windows?
       
 (DIR) Post #AcctAX1Ouq6agzCFhg by mttaggart@infosec.town
       2023-12-09T07:39:46.339Z
       
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       @darkcyberman Whoaaaaah flashbacks to messing with config.sys and autoexec.bat. I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcctMKV7IFDrKpio0e by tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca
       2023-12-09T07:41:28Z
       
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       @mttaggart OK, so ancient history, back to borrowed Unix accounts and such.Nano mostly emulates the behaviour of Pico, which was like the standalone editor if you used pine as your text-mode email client. And pine was meant as a nicer alternative to elm, another email client, but with that self-referential acronym.I do still fire up mutt (another email client) now and then, if I SSH into the host directly.