Lili Cosic 
☁Why is everyone so surprised when I say I use vim? vim is still a thing, and some of us enjoy using it.
Sammy (friend of foxes)@lili I still need to learn vim 😖
@theresnotime I just learned the commands I needed, and as I went along discovered new ones. But whatever editor works for you, is the one that is correct!
Rich Burroughs 
@lili @theresnotime Yeah absolutely. Learning vi was pretty essential back in the day for doing systems stuff. It was always on every server, whatever flavor of Unix.
lorddimwit is now @@richburroughs @lili @theresnotime vi is always there, and always works more or less the same way. If you SSH around a lot or use a bunch of systems not under your control (where you can’t install, e.g. emacs), you know vi will always be there. Waiting. Watching. Biding its time.
Hotweatherisbad@theresnotime @lorddimwit @richburroughs @lili
After knowing enough vi to get around and be useful, nano to me seems harder to use - especially in an environment where having a mouse is not guaranteed.
@Hotweatherisbad @lorddimwit @richburroughs @lili I know enough vi to edit a file, and save and exit.. I'd love to learn how to do like multi-replace operations and stuff... once saw a colleague using it proficiently and it's pretty awesome what you can do with it
@theresnotime @Hotweatherisbad @richburroughs @lili Indeed! The whole editing language thing is neat.
There was a later editor called sam that extended the editing language idea to nested/structural regular expressions. The sam paper (“The Text Editor sam”) is worth reading. Sam was my primary editor for a long time, actually.
@theresnotime @Hotweatherisbad @lorddimwit @lili I had a coworker who was amazingly fast with it and used a bunch of plugins. I would watch him in awe 😂