Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)

Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by Redoubts on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:38PM (#23098290)

So if you have an incredibly shitty setup, and have no idea how vscode works, then it might be worth it. Got it.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by kmarc on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:32AM (#23100319)

I have a quite good setup, in general.

Unfortunately this is some external requirement I cannot do anything about. Also, as opposed to many people, I actually got to work and know both the IDE-world (including VScode), and the vim world. I have a base for comparison.

Hopefully you "got that" too.

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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by u801e on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:37PM (#23099451)

There are also times when the available bandwidth is limited, so just having to use fewer keystrokes to edit a file speeds up the process. I was able to connect to remote linux servers over dial-up and edit files on those servers with vim without issue. Editing and saving over ssh was more of a hassle since it took longer to save the file (and I save pretty often).

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