majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.comimagemessage-square327fedilinkarrow-up1855arrow-down158
arrow-up1797arrow-down1imageHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.commajestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square327fedilink
minus-squares_s@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoVim makes it easy to edit text in complicated ways, once you’ve learned it. Vim is not easy to learn nor intuitive. It is simple and compounding. You might not ever edit enough text to ever need to learn a new skillset to edit text. If that’s the case, use nano. But if you do find yourself editing a lot of text, consider trying vimtutor. It takes 20 minutes and you’ll be proficient enough to match nano’s efficiency ceiling.
Vim makes it easy to edit text in complicated ways, once you’ve learned it.
Vim is not easy to learn nor intuitive.
It is simple and compounding.
You might not ever edit enough text to ever need to learn a new skillset to edit text. If that’s the case, use
nano
.But if you do find yourself editing a lot of text, consider trying
vimtutor
.It takes 20 minutes and you’ll be proficient enough to match
nano
’s efficiency ceiling.