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Because it's simpler to grasp than vi, at least for newbies. You hit backspace, it deletes a character. You hit enter, it makes a newline. And so on.
by untog 10y ago
Because it's simpler to grasp than vi, at least for newbies. You hit backspace, it deletes a character. You hit enter, it makes a newline. And so on.
- thallian 10y agoExactly what appealed to me in the beginning. Coming from Windows I was lost enough without trying to guess how to get out of vi. Once I got more comfortable with how things work I was confident enough to use it and I would not want to miss it any more.
- girvo 10y ago> I was lost enough without trying to guess how to get out of vi. Oh man, I remember googling that years ago now. That was fun. Now I use Vim and Visual Studio Code for all my editing, but because my Vim is so customized, if I remote into a server I'm more likely to reach for nano instead.
- rhabarba 10y agovi doesn't kill my newlines when on PuTTY.
- digi_owl 10y agoOn that note, i wonder if people should take a long at another of Hishamhm's (Htop, Gobolinux) projects, Dit. Its a terminal editor that uses hotkeys that you more commonly find in GUIs. https://github.com/hishamhm/dit https://github.com/hishamhm/dit