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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 l

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".