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Nano is what I teach my kids (5 and 8) to code on the terminal in. It's fantastic!

Thanks for mentioning this. I also started teaching my 3 kids using a terminal and nano instead of a gui editor. Consequently they are 15, 17, 20 and all are very comfortable in a terminal environment.

It feels amazing that my 17 year old daughter uses sed, awk, grep, cat, nano, etc instead of GUI apps.

Oh man, that's some hardcore parenting. Big respect. Would be nice if you could share you journey with your kids after a couple of years

Thanks :) Let's see how far I (they) get!

Nice. I think the best way to learn how to use programming tools is to actually see the need for them yourself. Starting with a basic text editor, no make, no debugger etc. is great.

Why though? Micro is a much better editor if you have to use a terminal and VSCode is much much better if you don't.

Seems odd to teach old needlessly difficult software just because you had to learn it.

With the widespread availability of raster graphics, I wonder how often people actually have to use a character-cell terminal for editing text. (I appreciate the coolness factor.)

I agree but it is useful when editing files over SSH. Remote X and VNC are rather a pain to set up and really not that good.

I use a terminal text editor when I'm doing something in the terminal, need to do a quick edit and don't want to have to switch away from the terminal into a GUI editor. For me that's typically commit messages and not-too-complex config files. In such cases using a terminal editor is simply more convenient...

Really not interested in getting into editor wars here. Sorry. :-/

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