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All I want is for my car to behave like walking. How can I replace the ignition key with tying shoelaces? Vim is really a crude programming language for text m
by ori_b 18y ago
All I want is for my car to behave like walking. How can I replace the ignition key with tying shoelaces?
Vim is really a crude programming language for text manipulation, more than anything else. Trying to use it like notepad throws out more or less all the reasons you would have for using it.
(As a side note: there are wrappers around it that try to do what you want. see 'evim' or 'cream')
- jasonkester 18y agoBoth evim and cream appear to be GUI wrappers for vim. I'm hoping for the opposite: a usable text editor for SSH sessions. I mean really, if you have access to a GUI environment, why would you use something as primitive as vi? Know of anything that would fit the bill?
- ori_b 18y agonano or pico, perhaps?