Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by IshKebab on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:53PM (#19145764)

It's annoying that vim is often the default editor (e.g. for git commit messages), because it really sucks if you aren't a vim user.

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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by nickjj on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:47PM (#19146253)

Even without being a dedicated Vim user, I think using it for git commits can be beneficial.

You can use it to visually warn you that your git commit is going past a certain amount of characters. Basically it can help you create better git commit messages.

But if you hate it and are on a Unix-like environment you can export EDITOR="nano" in your profile and now git should use nano instead. I think there's a git specific setting you can set too if you don't want to do it system wide.

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