• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know why Micro hasn’t completely replaced Nano in the Linux world.
    Wait, yes I do.
    Despite believing it to be better in every way, my dumb fingers keep automatically reaching for the Nano keyboard shortcuts.

    You know what the key combo is to copy a selection of text in Micro?
    Ctrl C, why would it ever be anything else?
    You know what the key combo is to copy a selection of text in Nano?
    Fucking shift, alt, 6.
    6!!

    And then Ctrl U to paste. I hate that I’m used to that.

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      1 year ago

      Never heard of that key combo in nano before, I’ve always used ctrl-K (which actually cuts, then I have to paste it back again if I want to leave that text in place).

      [Edit] Looks like you only need to hit alt-6, not shift-alt-6, to copy a full line or whatever text has been highlighted.