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As a long time vim user, I have to ask: what's the appeal?I use it because I already knew vi, and I knew vi because it was the one editor I could be confident o
by pmccool 16y ago
As a long time vim user, I have to ask: what's the appeal?I use it because I already knew vi, and I knew vi because it was the one editor I could be confident of finding on any UNIX box.
I'm curious: what's the motivation for learning it from scratch?
- whimsy 16y agoAs opposed to doing what? Using a GUI editor? Using emacs? vim is just as likely to be on any linux/os x box today as vi was to be on any UNIX box when you were learning vi, and it's still very powerful today.