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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the :wq dept.

hubie writes:

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."

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  • (Score: 2, Redundant) by Arik on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:56PM (7 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:56PM (#724889) Journal
    "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."

    Ed has been renamed to nano?

    Man I can't believe I missed that.
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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:20PM (#724903)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:28PM (#724908)

      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)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @10:25PM (#724906) Journal

    Ed?? What's with this user interface nonsense? Use sed!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:02AM (#724947)

      Sed? You kids and your hand-holding. Use butterflies!

  • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM (2 children)

    by NewNic (6420) on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:50AM (#724976) Journal

    nano is for lusers now. The new hotness is pico.

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    • (Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:01AM (1 child)

      by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:01AM (#724982)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:24AM (#725082)

        I use atto. It's nice, if a bit minimalistic. For example you write device drivers with 'cat > /dev/whatver'.