Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
(Score: 2) by Revek on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:42PM (10 children)
Depends on what you want it to do. If you need to do several different bulk manipulations of a file, vim is the shit. If you need to edit a small config file, use nano. Its the text editor that allows you tell it what to do and not blunder around like a luser.
This page was generated by a Swarm of Roaming Elephants
(Score: 2, Redundant) by Arik on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:56PM (7 children)
Ed has been renamed to nano?
Man I can't believe I missed that.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:20PM (1 child)
If you need to edit a small config file, you probably have a small job editing config files.
Some people have grown up jobs
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:28PM
What?! Ima volunteer editor to the dwarven news exchange you insensitive clod! Yea its a small job but for grown ups!
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)
Ed?? What's with this user interface nonsense? Use sed!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:02AM
Sed? You kids and your hand-holding. Use butterflies!
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM (2 children)
nano is for lusers now. The new hotness is pico.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:01AM (1 child)
I used pico long before I ever heard of nano. Not the I've used either more than a few dozen times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:24AM
I use atto. It's nice, if a bit minimalistic. For example you write device drivers with 'cat > /dev/whatver'.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:34AM
The one great thing about nano is its list of commands at the bottom of the screen. It usually contains what you really need. Of course there may be other commands that you'd want, but you don't really need them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:52AM
mcedit should be enough for anybody.