Justine SmithiesI've still not given up on #Vi as my editor instead of #Vim and to be perfectly honest, I'm not really missing the fancy Gruvbox theme and Vim's auto-completion. It's making me learn new tricks and stops me relying on the help of plugins. Good for the old grey stuff I'd say! I even changed the 88x31 button on my websites footer from Vim to Vi. #RunBSD #OpenBSD
Laurent Cimon@justine I prefer nvi2 on FreeBSD to vim, it's simpler and more responsive I think. It gets some getting used to though, things like undo are u followed by . to undo more, then you can press u again followed by . to redo a couple times.
I use OpenBSD vi which is basically nvi and if I really need Unicode stuff displayed in scripts nvi2. Loving this journey as I stayed away from Vi all these years using Vim and sometimes Neovim. But lately I feel I've been missing out on my education. ;)
Russ Sharek
Thorsten ZöllerThat's one reason why the often quoted reply https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118 is so good: It makes it clear that many "features" or "improvements" of Vim are actually not improvements at all, but rather workarounds if one does not properly understand how to do things using what is already given.
One of my favorite examples is visual mode, which I have used for years before I noticed I don't need it at all; I just failed to properly learn the respective ccommands for moving and marking.
Of course, the next logical step after moving from Vim to vi would be to move on to ed 
ed(1) conference@thorstenzoeller @RussSharek @justine @clf
/me doffs hat with a warm smile and welcoming gesture
@ed1conf @thorstenzoeller @justine @clf
I'm afraid of the nice ed and its simple ways. ;)