I keep seeing a comment pop up here and there on the web that is starting to anoy me just a little. Long time vim (vi) users seem to be constantly explaining how wonderful their favorite editor is and then say that there is a steep learning curve to using vim.<\/p>\n
Quite frankly, that is a load of bull.<\/p>\n
In their defense, for many of them it has been many years since they used anything but a full featured text editor.<\/p>\n
They forget that their target audience is used to notepad and the like where simple things like search and replace are still new and shiny toys.<\/p>\n
I say this because most of these speaches at least indicate that they are targeted at relative newbies.<\/p>\n
A word of advice, it takes less than five minutes to learn enough about vim to do everything you can do in notepad or nano.<\/p>\n
Unless you are using something similar to emacs, or one of he vi offshoots it will take you less than a day to get up to the same level of productivity in vi that you are at in your current editor.<\/p>\n
At that point you can learn all the scary bits that everyone talks about at your leisure.<\/p>\n
Don’t be scared. Give it a try. Worst thing that can happen is that you don’t like it and go back to whatever you are already using.<\/p>\n
And for those who have found the ideal text editor for use on their local machine, vim is still worth playing with. It truely excels at editing files on a remote server.<\/p>\n
If you have shell access to the machine, then there is a good chance that vi is already installed or that your admin will be willing to install it for you.<\/p>\n
If you are the admin, there us a version of vim for pretty much every OS. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Vim is not a pretty editor, but what it lacks in beauty it makes up for in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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