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Even though it feels weird, it will still pay off to learn the very basics of vim. The reson for that is simply that its pre-installed on most environments - in
by Matthias247 5y ago
Even though it feels weird, it will still pay off to learn the very basics of vim. The reson for that is simply that its pre-installed on most environments - including servers and embedded linux devices, and available in a ssh session. On some of those environments it might not be desireable/allowed to install additional software.
Basics for me is i,a,:q,:wq just be able to edit something and get out of the editor again. Adding d,y,p,/,^,$ makes it a bit more productive.
- int_19h 5y agoWhat server distro doesn't have nano out of the box these days?
- LoveMortuus 5y agoNot a server distro, but it still surprised me, since I'm used that pretty much all of the distros I use have nano. ChromeOS Linux (container?) doesn't have nano, from what I can tell it only has Vim, on the topic of Vim, using J to go down was (and is) quite confusing, probably because I feel like Up should be before Down...
- pxc 5y ago> on the topic of Vim, using J to go down was (and is) quite confusing, probably because I feel like Up should be before Down.. I think I shared this intuition. Thankfully using vim keys on many things for a long time has ground it out of me, so it never trips me up anymore