JP MensI hope @ed1conf isn’t looking …
“The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor.”
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱All I'll say about vi is that it was *such* a pain to learn back in my 1st freelance gig in 1992 (it was basically all they had on their Unix boxes!) that I chose to stick with it ever since and never learn another! I've always used gvim on both Linux and Win, and now my .vimrc is a thing of beauty (to me!)
And I've never got involved in the 'editor wars', because we're all different and work in different ways!
ed(1) conferenceFor what it's worth, POSIX shells provide a built-in means of creating the optimal .vimrc file:
$ : > ~/.vimrc
(this also works for an optimal .exrc if you use vi rather than vim)
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_19_17
@bytebro editor wars are stupid, unless you’re not using the text editor I use (just kidding! ;-)
Really, when teaching I tell students to use a program they’re comfortable with. I’d 1000x rather have somebody typing in nano (or even notepad.exe) than fumbling around and not understanding vi/vim or whichever.
Feel comfortable with the tools one uses, is very important imo.
// @ed1conf
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