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My wife was unimpressed by Vim (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look, some of us old farts started on Linux back before nano was included by default, and your options for text editing on the command line were either:

vi/vim, a perfectly competent text editor with arcane and unintuitive key combos for commands
emacs, a ludicrously overcomplicated kitchen-sink program that had reasonable text-editing functionality wedged in between the universal woodchuck remote control and the birdcall translation system

Given those options, most of us chose to learn how to key-chord our way around vim, and old habits die hard.