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Which one is consistently good though
vi is basically gonna be on every Linux based machine until the end of time. Nano usually needs to be installed, which in corpo environments, you may not have the ability to do that. I made my peace with vim for sysadmin stuff or simple changes like editing yaml files. Vi also has some pretty good features out of the box which are good to learn.
I was about to resign myself to vi but then I learned that in Emacs you can use tramp to remotely edit files.
So now I can use my configured preferences for emacs on any online server which includes the vi keybindings via evil-mode.
vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt can also accomplish this in vim, FWIW.
how about nano?
What's the difference between all of these? They're all just command line based text editors, right?
Vi is a very old piece of software. Unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't even have syntax highlighting. Vim is "vi improved" and supports all kinds of stuff, including extensions. Neovim is vim that uses Lua as an extension language, instead of vimscript. That allows for easier creation of powerful extensions.
Nano is a simpler text editor that is not as "powerful" as the vim family. Emacs is a state of mind.
In general, all of these are good tools and get the job done.
All of them aside from nano become marvellous after enough usage to know how to use them efficiently
One of them has memes about knowing how to close it