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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by jki275 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:50AM (#19070214)
Why not just write the basic instructions up on the board? Or give them a handout with the basic command keys?
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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by na85 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:49AM (#19070597)
Why not just use an editor without awful UX?
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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by waynecochran on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:37AM (#19076630)
That would have been my choice. Unfortunately I wasn't the one that made the decision to have the students use vi.
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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by jki275 on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:16PM (#19078199)
It's not really awful, especially when you compare it to something like ed, edlin, or edt...
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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by na85 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:03AM (#19085326)
The fact that $thing has some negative qualities is not erased by pointing at $otherThing which scores lower on that particular dimension.
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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by jki275 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:38AM (#19085593)
There aren't really any editors that have no negative qualities...

vi is a very good editor. You have to learn about three things to use it effectively. It's really not a high bar to entry.

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Re:Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (... by waynecochran on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:36AM (#19076620)
You can lead a horse to water, but he will still start typing before reading instructions.
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