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 epitaxial on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:40AM (3 children)
I do on a new system is install Nano.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:59AM (2 children)
The first thing I do is get rid of nano in favor of vi/vim.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by coolgopher on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:23AM
Amen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:01PM
It likely already comes with vim, and nano isn't hurting you existing