12 Reasons to Learn and Use the vi Editor

Re:12 Reasons to Learn and Use the vi Editor by madrik on Monday March 08, 2010 @04:05PM (#1176429)

The first eleven points are fairly regularly touted as the strong points of vi. I'm specifically interested in the twelfth point that states:

"Writing with vi is as close as you will ever come to writing in your own handwriting and still working on a computer."

Your thoughts?

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Re:12 Reasons to Learn and Use the vi Editor by grayrest on Monday March 08, 2010 @07:24PM (#1176985)

It's a fairly strange list mostly because it seems the guy doesn't do a lot of programming. The whole 'only focus on one thing' is pretty well known for writing, which is why the vairous writeroom clones exist.

I've always felt that vim was pretty awkward when working with text instead of code because it doesn't reflow the text when you delete so you hit a `D` and then have to `gqgq` to get the text back into a paragraph.

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