• burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Do i dare ask why? I just want a basic text editor i don’t have to fight with to exit. I want to type, save, and exit, and maybe not in that order.

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      1 year ago

      So you want something like Nano.

      Vim is great for more complicated documents and programming because the modes allow you to fly around the document much faster. It’s not very useful unless you put the time into learning how to use it… and it’s not worth it for simple things imo.

      I use it to write work reports. It’s much faster for many things: one example I type dap and bam a whole paragraph is deleted, d5w and the next 5 words are deleted. I use snippets to compete reports like fill in the blanks (I have hundreds of snippets, I hit rpt then tab and a whole report skeleton is generated). Annoying long patient name? I hit CTRL-N and it fills out the name with only a few characters.

      Vim is actually just amazing for this kind of stuff.

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      1 year ago

      As someone who has been lightly using Linux for years but recently gotten more into it. I’ve always only ever used nano. But now I’m so into vim that when a program opens a config in nano I get confused when I can’t quit with :wq

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have to fight to exit in vim or save it’s 3 essential commands and I use nothing else :q, :wq, or just w it’s not that hard

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        1 year ago

        Sorry, but i forgot to hit escape, now I need to figure out how to exit it without being able to easily type man vim because I got stuck in Vim again… I got sick of it, ctrl-x/s/q or whatever is much easier imo

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            1 year ago

            And i have to memorize what : w q ! each do because I will use them all at some point. And i have to get used to all of this because?? Vim is slightly better for other people?? Fuck outta here, I’m sticking with nano/micro/whatever else is better than vim