In my recent teaching (Introduction to Linux for a bioinformatics course
which is based on but not identical to a Software Carpentry workshop) I
have used Atom. The window switching is a problem but it is also an
important learning opportunity: where is this file? Compare output of pwd
with what you can find in the file browser from nano. This issue of nano
keeps coming up - is there a place on Github where we could discuss it?

Peter

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 at 13:50 Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> > At a workshop this morning a few of our learners see a “nano not found”
> error after installing gitbash on Windows.
> >
> > Is this a known error/bug?
>
> We have a few bugs related with nano. :-(
> I had suggested to replace nano with Atom, https://atom.io/,
> since it works on Windows, Mac and Linux machines,
> https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v1.14.4,
> plus is open source.
>
> The arguments against the change was
>
> (1) Switch windows is distracting for learners.
> (2) We still need to install GNU Make
>     and makes it accessible from msysGit.
> (3) We still need to install SQLite
>     and makes it accessible from msysGit.
>
> I understand (1) but having "nano not found" is worse.
> I don't have any data about how many workshops depend on (2) and (3).
>
> Raniere
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