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Some people consider vi a simple editor...
by bluedino 7y ago
Some people consider vi a simple editor...
- farisjarrah 7y agoDoes simple have to equal easy? An abacus is very simple, but its not easy to do advanced mathematics on it without prior training.
- kstrauser 7y ago> Does simple have to equal easy? laughs in Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- raverbashing 7y agolaughs even harder in lightweight directory access protocol
- falcolas 7y agoscreams and runs away
- bashinator 7y agoAny protocol with the words "lightweight" or "simple" in the name, is not. Looking at you, SNMP.
- kstrauser 7y agoThe protocols themselves are lightweight or simple, but using them may not be. Imagine that your protocol for choosing dinner with your SO is: You: What would you like: Them: I don't care. There, simple! Getting some useful information out of that is an exercise left for the reader.
- bashinator 7y agoWonderful analogy - thank you for that.
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- ci5er 7y agoWell, it used to be. Before they discovered headers...
- Barrin92 7y agoif we're talking about it in the context of widespread user adoption then yes. At least it's a large part of it. It's not really helpful when people try to describe IRC as easy simply because it resembles text based paradigms that developers are familiar with.
- x3haloed 7y agoI think the missing subtlety here is simple design vs. simple to use or simple to learn. Vim is very simple in design, but not at all simple to learn.
- imron 7y agoMany people (myself included) consider vi to be a powerful editor. I've not heard many who would call it simple though.
- fernandotakai 7y agoyup. it's extremely powerful, super customizable (when it comes to vim/neovim), but simple? never. i would never recommend vim to a someone that is just beginning when vscode is right there.
- boomlinde 7y agoI think the point is that there is a sense in which you can say that something is simple that pertains to complexity rather than ease of use. Vim is arguably simple in neither of these senses, but most Vi clones are much less complex than Vim or NeoVim.