Vi Vs Nano. We will look at both and go over the important commands for both. So with vim you are constantly changing between command mode and edit mode.
Nano offers text editing without the steeper learning curve found in vi. When compared to modern graphical editors like atom and brackets which have underlying html5 engines browsers node etc vim uses a sliver of the system s memory and it loads instantly all the while delivering the same features. Developers claimed gnu nano to be 2 3 to 1 8 the size of the pico binary which made it very lean and usable on even the weakest systems.
Nano nano is without a doubt the simplest.
Developers claimed gnu nano to be 2 3 to 1 8 the size of the pico binary which made it very lean and usable on even the weakest systems. I ll walk you through the process of creating a file in nano editing the file and saving the file. However if you want more than just simple text editing and do advanced tasks using the command line then vim is your thing. Vim is a mode based text editor while nano is modeless.
