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I feel almost ashamed to admit it, but I've never used vim for work. I use nano for quick edits and sublime text (or rmate+sublime text) for everything else. Ma
by schindlabua 8y ago
I feel almost ashamed to admit it, but I've never used vim for work. I use nano for quick edits and sublime text (or rmate+sublime text) for everything else. Maybe I haven't found the right use case yet.
- dhimes 8y agoGet off my lawn!
- philjohn 8y agoYou've SSH'd into a system, can't install nano, but as it's pretty much guaranteed to be there you can still edit files.
- JdeBP 8y agovi may be guaranteed to be there, it being standardized alongside ex in the Single Unix Specification. vim does not have such guarantees. Nor do you have guarantees that vi is even the same program as vim. It can be nvi or even actual Joy vi on some systems. Which is why a work colleague of mine for years maintained the habit of using vim with the arrow keys unmapped, so that the kinaesthetic memory would work if xe hit a system such as that. * http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi...