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Vim is not as hard as it seems, the learning curve is kind of steep but nothing too crazy to get the basic things going, it's just a different approach to text
by Trufa 13y ago
Vim is not as hard as it seems, the learning curve is kind of steep but nothing too crazy to get the basic things going, it's just a different approach to text editing. Don't get me wrong I would never use it (me, myself!) as a IDE, but as text editor, it's pretty great.
I don't want to start a flamewar about this, I don't find them interesting, I just want to point out that knowing Vim is extremely useful if you're going to be shh'ing into remote machines as it is basically ubiquitous.
- x0054 13y agoI agree, Vim is nice to know. But to each his own, I like the Sublime Text style editors, and having something like it but in terminal sounds really cool to me. Wonder how it will support multiple cursors, have yet to try it.
- tehwalrus 13y agoI agree that flamewars about editors are not interesting, so I won't say too much, other than: For SSH'ing, another editor which is (nearly) always there, and which I find convenient, is nano - and it displays its common shortcuts at the bottom, so you don't have to learn anything. I still use nano, even on my mac locally, to edit the odd file quickly in the terminal.