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I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me. I'm not a fanatic, I'm skeptical
by flykespice 5y ago
I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me.
I'm not a fanatic, I'm skeptical about the tools I use and I'm feeling like moving to an ide like
Vscode because they seem being much more productive to working with large codebases(has built-in source code navigation tools, etc).
- throw0101a 5y ago> I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me. My pet peeve is that by default on most Linux distros nowadays, when I type in "vi" I get the Crayola® colours of Vim. If I wanted Vim I would have typed in "vim". I'm editing a .conf file, not hacking the kernel source code. (Also I have no need for all the colours of the default ls(1): a simple 'ls -F' will do for showing the characters "/@*" for their type. No need for the Technicolor®.)
- dekhn 5y agoBill, is that you? I used to work for a guy who got really angry when we switched to linux and ls did color. I had to show him how to unalias ls.
- throw0101a 5y agoSeems that some people are get angry in the other direction as I'm getting downvotes.