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I don't particularly like vi, but as a intermittent user for 20 years, I don't like it to be changed just because a few junior front end developers (ok a millio
by kpil 9y ago
I don't particularly like vi, but as a intermittent user for 20 years, I don't like it to be changed just because a few junior front end developers (ok a million) think it's hard to use.
The default editor in distros could be set to nano or some other reasonably 'windowsy' editor instead. Those who want vi or emacs know how to fix it anyway...
- peatmoss 9y agoOr as an emacs user, we deal with a lot of weirdness by modern standards. But when someone asks for a random change, it's more a matter of, "sure, knock yourself out."
- theonemind 9y agoAs a sysadmin, this drives me crazy. I log into a lot of systems I didn't set up, and then I press the key at the command prompt to bring it up in an editor, or invoke something that uses an interactive editor, and its nano. I have to exit it, export EDITOR=vi and do it again. I don't even like vi as a standard editor. I just expect the system default of vi, and nano is painfully underpowered. I'd even adapt to it running emacs, but it's like getting a nerf hammer every time you need a real one when the system pulls up nano by default.