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This is probably misunderstanding the demographic, but why does he suggest using nano over vim?

• tensorproduct 12y ago
  Maybe they just prefer nano? More likely, if this is meant to be a gentle introduction to the command line, vim is a pretty scary place. Nano works much more like a "normal" text editor.
  • endur 12y ago
    Until you want to undo something! Nano is definitely more user-friendly though. Some of the engineers I work with still don't know basic vim shortcuts, like 'w' and 'b'
    • _lce0 12y ago
      I use a lot of "yw", "d4w", or "dd" .. are there others life-saving useful as these?
      • mryan 12y ago
        How about find and replace? :%s/foo/bar/gc The "gc" will apply the find and replace globally, and ask for confirmation before changing an occurrence of "foo".
• zan 12y ago
  knowing my demographic, that's what they prefer. If anyone wants to use vim, I point them to the vim person.