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I use free and open source editor - Doom Emacs
It is a good idea to learn one simple editor that is present in single user mode.
That is usually vi or nano
Neville
I discovered much to my chagrin, and huge displeasure, that Debian (and thus Ubuntu) “single” user mode, or rescue mode, “busybox” (it’s not the full blown suite of UNIX / GNU utilities) does NOT have vi/vim, and you have to use nano (and I detest nano).
Thankfully, usually where I am doing a rescue in “single user mode” its an RPM based distro, and I have “vi” so I can do shit like on an REL4 box last week (physical server) comment out a bunch of LUN mount arguments in /etc/fstab that was stopping it from booting.
I use Ubuntu as my daily driver desktop, but I hardly ever have to “rescue” (like never) - usually if I’m that desperate, I’ll just wipe it and re-install then re-sync to my cloud hosted data…
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Yes I agree nano is a poor substitute for vi.
In the old days with BSD Unix, the only editor available in single user mode was the ‘ed’ line editor…
How many of todays users could cope with ed?
Neville
For editing plain text or code, I use Sublime for GUI, VIM in the console. Occasionally nano for something different. I use Standard notes for saved plain text/markdown. Evernote for formatted text/attachments.
I used Geany when some code for a numerically-controlled machine needed executing, and found my way round with little difficulty.
However, I don’t need a text editor every day, it took me a long time to get my head round Notepad++ on Windows, and I’m reaching an age where I’d rather not have to learn a new one.
More generally, we find - or rather found, thanks to corona - in our walk-in help and repair shop that frequent changes in software and user interfaces are a major obstacle for many older people, and for quite a few young ones.
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