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Why learning the Vim text editor is worth it

3 points| ingve | 5 years ago |blog.vmsplice.net | reply

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[+] yaszas|5 years ago|reply
Vim’s great if you live in it, but most people don’t because there’s really no need to. Any time you have to spend enough time working on a file that you can really get the most out of vim, you have enough time to get that file into an environment that you can use a more “friendly” text editor. I like vim and appreciate it’s potential, but for most people it’s a waste of time.
[+] nikau|5 years ago|reply
If you do any sort of system admin/devops work where you constantly hop onto different hosts its essential - vi or some variant is normally installed even in stripped down Docker containers.

And there is always ed if you are on some extremely old or stripped down box.

[+] ratsmack|5 years ago|reply
I know just enough about vim so I can exit it if I find myself staring at a file that I accidentally opened with it.