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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by solidsnack9000 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:37AM (#15376551)
One use case would be a fallback editor for junior developers. It's still important to have syntax coloring for things like config files, JSON files, editing shell scripts and writing Git commit messages; and you can't always use the IDE for these things:

* The IDE can be too slow to start.

* Maybe it's not working today.

* Maybe it's not on the server.

Vim addresses nearly all the requirements -- it's reliable; it's easy to use as $EDITOR, to be called by other CLI tools; and it offers great syntax coloring and editing options. It's just that it's too confusing. The old joke about developers shutting off the computer to quit...

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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by BenjiWiebe on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:22PM (#15385144)
Please. Nowadays vim tells you how to quit. If you press control c, it clearly explains how to exit. I learned vim a few years ago, and immediately figured out how to exit it (just do what it says!) and by now it's my main editor and I love it.
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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by solidsnack9000 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @02:09AM (#15398594)
> Nowadays vim tells you how to quit. If you press control c, it clearly explains how to exit.

I'm not sure whether I am happy or sad that it does that now.

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