I much prefer nano, as it’s intuitive, so I don’t have to think to use it. If I forget what a command is, it’s at the bottom of the screen. With vim, I have the remember “wait, how do I get into editing mode? And if I want to save a file, how do I do that again? Crap. Better Google a tutorial.”

Sure, if I used it more, it would become second nature, but I don’t, so as more of an admin (and less of a developer) that doesn’t spend lots of time in console editors, nano is nice.

Having said that, I don’t see the need to include it. Whenever I install a new system, I run a pakfire command to install nano, ncftp, telnet (for administering old Cisco IP phones), wlanap, and I forget what else. No big whoop, and how often does one install a new system?

Tom

> On Oct 10, 2021, at 8:55 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have (or had) a couple of editors and I am quite against shipping them all.
> 
> Everyone has their favourites, and there will always be another one.
> 
> What is wrong with vim?
> 
> -Michael
> 
>> On 9 Oct 2021, at 22:07, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> Is it possible to move `nano` from addon to core?  It is SOOOOO much easier to use than vim.
>> 
>> I understand it is an easy installed addon but it seems like it really belongs in "core".
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>>>> On Oct 9, 2021, at 5:56 AM, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Reviewed-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
>>> 
>>> On 08/10/2021 19:22, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>>>> For details see:
>>>> https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org>
>>>> ---
>>>> lfs/nano | 6 +++---
>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>> 
>>>> diff --git a/lfs/nano b/lfs/nano
>>>> index 3bb7806aa..237dfab20 100644
>>>> --- a/lfs/nano
>>>> +++ b/lfs/nano
>>>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>>>  include Config
>>>> -VER        = 5.8
>>>> +VER        = 5.9
>>>>  THISAPP    = nano-$(VER)
>>>> DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.xz
>>>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ DL_FROM    = $(URL_IPFIRE)
>>>> DIR_APP    = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)
>>>> TARGET     = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
>>>> PROG       = nano
>>>> -PAK_VER    = 38
>>>> +PAK_VER    = 39
>>>>  DEPS       = ""
>>>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>>>  $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>>> -$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = d2249e3dd108c830df00efd7c1b79d86
>>>> +$(DL_FILE)_MD5 = 24b67a7a2e731d3a5ec6d154b4521d08
>>>>  install : $(TARGET)
>>>> 
>> 
>