My wife was unimpressed by Vim

LinearArray@programming.dev · 7 months ago

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

alias vi=nano

PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social · 7 months ago

export EDITOR=nano.

But (neo)vim is amazing so there is no need to do that.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

I transfer all my files over to a Windows machine and edit them in Notepad

ryannathans@aussie.zone · edit-2 7 months ago

Based nano user

From my .zshrc (typing this on mobile so cope if it’s wrong)

case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    export EDITOR=nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    export EDITOR=ee
  ;;

lil@lemy.lol · 7 months ago

I guess shell languages can’t do this:

export EDITOR=case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)
    nano
  ;;
  freebsd*)
    ee
  ;;

ryannathans@aussie.zone · edit-2 7 months ago

That would be too smart. Smells like kotlin’s when

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Put backticks around the entire case statement, and you can.

tiredofsametab@kbin.run · 7 months ago

You can set your default editor (maybe in .bashrc or .bash_profile? I forget), but I’m far too lazy.