On 11/16/21 2:08 PM, Peter Boy wrote:
You might see it yourself: K for cut, very intuitive , ^ for „Press
<ctrl> key, even more intuitive.
Back it the Old Days when nano was first developed, the standard way to
signify use of the control key was ^, which is still used in the various
terminal programs and the CLI. Whoever wrote nano simply used the
current convention rather than making something up.
I can't understand the "missionary zeal" that some
people bring into the field for Nano. It is more a question of knowledge and, above all,
of requirements for the editor. Nano as default for Workstation may have some merit, but
as default for server it makes more sense to use vim.
I'm not saying that everybody should switch to nano, just that I
consider it far easier for a beginner to learn for the reasons I've
already given. What I don't understand is why so many people think that
vi/vim is so wonderful unless it's justifying the amount of work it took
them to learn it.