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

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: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:39AM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:39AM (#725002)

    I started using 'joe' a very long time ago. I wasn't particularly used to the commands but they're easy, joe is small and quick, and I love the syntax highlighting.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:49AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:49AM (#725008)

    I've used several different ones over the years, but I've fallen back to nano because it's always there, gedit for "next level" stuff that becomes a PITA in nano, and Qt Creator for code editing because: IDE - available anywhere, 10x faster to install than Visual Studio.

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:59AM (1 child)

      by RS3 (6367) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:59AM (#725015)

      Yeah, nano is okay too. It's familiarish because I started using pine very long ago and still do in some contexts.

      10x faster to install than Visual Studio.

      LoL, Windows 10 is 10x faster to install than Visual Studio!

      Ever try joe?

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:32PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:32PM (#725177)

        I'm trying to remember the weird editor I was using around 2013, pretty sure it wasn't joe, but it was attractive because it had most of the functionality of gedit, including a little syntax coloring, but was functional via ssh, and available via apt-get.

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