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Vim has a built-in tutorial too. As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes, in Emacs you can
by rich_sasha 5y ago
Vim has a built-in tutorial too. As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes, in Emacs you can at least stumble around without knowing anything.
Equally, there's a difference in target audience. Do you need a tutorial to operate a screwdriver? No. Power drill? Arguably yes. CNC mill? Dear God please yes. I don't think you expect a fork lift or nail gun to be accessible with zero runway by anyone, or for their features to be discoverable by trial-and-error.
You could argue that this is not a worthwhile niche, and maybe that's right (at least for you and like-minded people) but it's just what it is.
- Zababa 5y ago> As said elsewhere, you literally cannot get started in Vim without knowing a dozen command and grokking modes You need i, escape, :w! and !wq. hjkl too if you're feeling fancy. But i, escape, :w! and !wq is all you need to use Vim. I know because I used it like that for two years in college.
- vidarh 5y agoCtrl-z followed by killall -9 vim is how I usually exited vim. I once pissed off dozens of customers by symlinking vim to emacs on one of our shell servers (back when isps gave you login access to a Linux/Unix box... (Yes, it wasn't very nice, but it was funny)