Re:Learning vi -- the "cheatsheet" technique
by mechanical_fish on Saturday January 31, 2009 @02:40PM
(#459957)
But nobody talks about GNU Emacs and vim. They say emacs and vi.
When I log into a server and I want an editor I type vi, not vim. Because vi has worked for twenty years, and I assume it always will work!
(That's actually why I bothered to learn a little bit about vi -- it is always there, on every Unix box, and it always works the same way -- no wacky transposition of Meta keys, etc. On my own machines I use nothing but emacs. ;)
When I log into a server and I want an editor I type vi, not vim. Because vi has worked for twenty years, and I assume it always will work!
(That's actually why I bothered to learn a little bit about vi -- it is always there, on every Unix box, and it always works the same way -- no wacky transposition of Meta keys, etc. On my own machines I use nothing but emacs. ;)