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It took me years to consider using vim over plain vi. After fifteen years or so of vi I ended up switching to emacs. I've worked with really awesome people wh
by dlsspy 15y ago
It took me years to consider using vim over plain vi. After fifteen years or so of vi I ended up switching to emacs.
I've worked with really awesome people who are completely lost without [insert proprietary single-platform editor here].
- crag 15y agoI can't use vim. God, I've tried, and tried. I'm too old. I just can't do it. So I stick with a big IDE (or Sublime 2 which I'm liking more and more). I had to telnet into a Centos box recently and the only thing I could find was vi. Took me a few minutes but I managed. I was proud. ;)
- dlsspy 15y agoI bet you can. But can likely use emacs as well. I think if I had to pick one piece of software to live with on my desert island, it'd be emacs (assuming I had a reasonable boot loader and a filesystem to sit under it).
- jamii 15y agoChoosing emacs is cheating, it contains every other program you might ever want to use.
- bostonvaulter2 15y agoI'm curious, how long did you spend trying to use Vim?
- njharman 15y ago> I had to telnet Knowing/using ssh way more important than vi/vim.
- crag 15y agoI do use ssh. I call it telnet since ssh is just telnet on roids.
- efsavage 15y ago> I've worked with really awesome people who are completely lost without [insert proprietary single-platform editor here]. And this is bad why? I'd rather be 100% productive for 10 years and then retool than 80% productive all the time.
- dlsspy 15y agoThis is bad because he was 0% productive for many days because he couldn't input text on the computer where the problem was because it didn't have his editor.
- efsavage 15y agoWe're 0% productive most of the time. Sleeping, commuting, meetings, lunch. Adding a negligible amount more for tooling is not really an issue. I'm essentially dependent on Eclipse when doing Java. It takes me < 1 hour to get it set up the way I like it. For the next 2-3000 hours before I need to set it up again, I will outperform and produce better quality code than anyone using vi or emacs, guaranteed. Sounds like a fair tradeoff to me. Back when I was on a Civil Engineering path, an elderly engineer said "I bet you don't even know how to use a slide rule, what do you do when the power goes out", to which I responded, "I go home, same as you, unless you've got candles in your desk too, and let's not even get into air conditioning".