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I have to give myself a kick in the pants at my own irrationality. For some weird reason, I use vim. I'm not very good at it, and I only use it for basic things
by cmurf 8y ago
I have to give myself a kick in the pants at my own irrationality. For some weird reason, I use vim. I'm not very good at it, and I only use it for basic things like editing configuration files. Every time I use nano, I prefer it, but somehow just am in a habit/rut of typing vi blah. And I call it irrational because vim is totally non-obvious and not self-describing how do the most basic tasks, and yet I keep hitting my head on a wall. Maybe I should remove vim, install nano, and make vi an alias of nano!
- cmrdporcupine 8y agoPart of the problem is that vi is pretty much guaranteed to be on any system you log into, including many 'embedded' systems. So although I was historically an emacs user, I have learned the minimum of vi commands to get by, but no better than that.
- epicide 8y agoRecently made this argument to someone. They open vi/m just to immediately jump into insert mode and never leave. I love using vim and would encourage anyone to go through vimtutor and start learning it, but if you're just not interested, using nano can save you a lot of headache.
- gralx 8y agoI second vimtutor for the interested. This Vim help page is indispensible to those who aren't: :help index Every Vim shortcut is there and organized.