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I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It's almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding "-modernbindings" or creating an "enano" variant/copy.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

creating an “enano” variant/copy

What's wrong with that?

Providing optional alternative keybindings for people who know a set of bindings from other tools makes lot of sense. I always appreciate that some tools provide these. This shows that the devs think about newcomers who are used to other set of bindings. It's optional.

BTW the blog post you posted has only 4 sentences (excluding the quote). I often dislike articles that short, but on the other hand, at least its not blown up with crap. So there is that.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My issue is that the only time I use vim or nano it's because I'm logged into some server where you're going to be stuck with the defaults anyway. I guess it's nice on your home machine, but customising a bunch of servers with your personal preferences isn't really something you can do in most work situations.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, that's why I still need to learn how vi and vim in their default config work (in fact I started like that, so I know already). I wanted to get into finding as solution to this problem. Years ago I read in Reddit someone setup a keyboard macro (outside of Vim) to execute bunch of commands to setup the environment in the live session, while in Vim. At least some of the configuration can be used like that.

Otherwise, yeah this really sucks. That is not a unique problem to editors, but any software that you run with a customized local setup and with bare naked server version. If you often switch back and forth, it makes sense to just use one set of keybindings. That also is the point: For people using other tools, it makes sense to provide these alternative keybindings, so they don't need to relearn the nano specific setup.

Edit: Too many Buts reduced.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I’m pretty sure enano means dwarf in Spanish. Not that it’s an issue.