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tieTYT | 11 years ago

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

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tensorproduct|11 years 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|11 years 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'

zan|11 years ago

knowing my demographic, that's what they prefer. If anyone wants to use vim, I point them to the vim person.