Favorite SSH Editor

[CammyD]

I use nano.

[Effective]

I use nano

[JmZ]

vim ftw.

although the true 'editor war' is between vi(m) and emacs.
and they're just editors, not SSH editors since they work in linux & windows.

[NoEnD]

nano ftw! So simple.

[freecbc3]

i use winscp to edit file

[jpavsex]

NANO is best

[Cory]

Yep, nano is awesome.

but nobody can explain to me why people use vi when it's such an inconvenience to use; when nano is so much simpler.

[EnCiPh3r]

nano its awesome and easy

[XSLTel]

vi ..........

[JmZ]

Yep, nano is awesome.

but nobody can explain to me why people use vi when it's such an inconvenience to use; when nano is so much simpler.

If you think it's an inconvenience, you just don't know how to use it, to put it bluntly.

I know almost every keyboard shortcut in vim by memory, there are still a couple I fail to remember after 4 years or so of using it.

An example benefit:
I can delete a couple of lines, type something else in, copy that, paste it into another file then replace occurences of a variable i copied from that file with another variable in my code... all without ever touching my mouse or changing window, in a few keystrokes.

nano is for people who can't vim.