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Lots of people at my work use it, but I don't know if I'd consider it essential. If you can use any editor/IDE very fluently that's good; probably doesn't hurt

by danmur 4y ago

Lots of people at my work use it, but I don't know if I'd consider it essential. If you can use any editor/IDE very fluently that's good; probably doesn't hurt to learn with vim if you don't already have that.

justizin 4y ago
if you ever find yourself needing to modify files at the shell on any sort of remotely modern unix/linux system, you're probably going to have vi or vim available. it's worth knowing an editor that doesn't require 6GB of RAM and a graphical environment, but it's probably not going to be most folks' primary editor. ;d
- IIsi50MHz 4y ago
  <6 GB RAM? Sooo many choices. I started[1] programming on a 5 MB machine with ~4 MB free.[2] But I'm not allowed a GUI? Ok… then, I'll choose an editor with a keyboard-driven menubar across the top (keyboard shortcuts appearing in the menus), a status line on bottom, and as many keycombos that match my preferred GUI as possible. Failing that, I can muddle along with Nano. Until some once-in-20-years task actually requires using an arcane 'editor' that assumes I live in PDP-11. (^: [1] Wellll… I sometimes forget typing BASIC from magazines into an Apple II and making small changes. [2] And it was luxurious…until I tried to fit 8 MB of a CD-ROM app into compressed RAM.
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