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First time when you ssh into your Linux terminal and you gotta “sudo crontab -e” or something and it’s like “what editor do you want to use?” and nano sounds lame so you choose vim cause the sound is cool when you say it and then you have to wipe the whole comp and start over

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (12 children)

How to use Vim: 1- Don't use it. 2- Use Nano or Gedit lmao.

[–] takeda 9 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Until those are not available.

This is a pisspoor attitude to have, just fire up vimtutor and you will know how to use it in no time.

[–] Sanyanov 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Unless you're a sysadmin who deals with very obscure systems, you'll always have access to nano, so why bother?

Vim elitists love to brag about how cool Vim is, but pretty much never properly elaborate. Why should I learn all those obscure commands to just edit some text? What's the point?

[–] thews 2 points 10 months ago

I learned them and basically never use vim.

I use sed if i need to change things with a pattern, cat the file if i need to see the contents, use head or tail if its too much to fit on the screen.

If I am writing code, I use a code editor. Emacs and vim can do a lot, but they can also fuck off.

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