The SI prefix thing stems from a joke anyway. Allow me to trot out the etymology again:
Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was created a program for reading ELectronic Mail called Elm.
Someone created a rival mail reader called Pine, which followed both the tree pun as well as the fact it was a recursive acronym: “Pine is not Elm”.
Pine had an editor called the Pine Composer or Pico for short. Pico is both a typographical term as well as an SI unit. They may have been going for both. Too perfect a pun to pass up, perhaps.
Due to licensing uncertainty, someone else created a from-scratch clone of Pico called Nano, cementing the continuation of puns, but in the SI direction.
And then apparently someone else has decided to get on the bandwagon with Micro.
Just give me nano, I can’t be bothered to fuck with emacs or vim.
use micro, it’s 1000x better
Thanks, I’ll check it out
Edit: did I just fall for an si prefix joke?
The SI prefix thing stems from a joke anyway. Allow me to trot out the etymology again:
Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was created a program for reading ELectronic Mail called Elm.
Someone created a rival mail reader called Pine, which followed both the tree pun as well as the fact it was a recursive acronym: “Pine is not Elm”.
Pine had an editor called the Pine Composer or Pico for short. Pico is both a typographical term as well as an SI unit. They may have been going for both. Too perfect a pun to pass up, perhaps.
Due to licensing uncertainty, someone else created a from-scratch clone of Pico called Nano, cementing the continuation of puns, but in the SI direction.
And then apparently someone else has decided to get on the bandwagon with Micro.
It’s a joke, but it’s a real editor
At the risk of invoking the ire of two communities, why shouldn’t we think of Micro as Emacs but with Lua instead of Lisp?
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One thing that irks me a lot is that you save in nano with ^O why!? How does O relates to saving?
I just save ny exiting ctrl+x
I want push my updates from volatile memory out to long term storage.
I always saw the O as output.
It makes the previous version obsolete
Yeah, that is probably my biggest gripe with nano as well.
On one hand autocompletion is nice when I want to use a language instead of learning it.
On the other hand I am in the middle of my learning phase.