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Vim is built different (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

‘vimtutor’ is your friend. Nobody sane uses vim as an IDE, but if you have to ssh to a host to fuck with a config file it’s pretty nice to know because you can guarantee that most distros have at least vi, if not vim.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nobody sane uses vim as an IDE

    Huh? Many people do this. With the right plugins and config it is just as capable as any IDE.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you're just doing a quick config edit, nano is significantly easier to use and is also present in most distros.

    Vi/Vim is useful as a customizable dev environment, but in the present there are better, more feature-rich development tools - unless you are specifically doing a lot of development in a GUI-free system, for some reason.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, if youre continually updating files on remote take the time to learn vim. My God it's a million times more efficient. Even using the keybindings in an ide makes sense.

    That and Im not aware that rhel distros at all have nano built in. Nothing on a random rocky 9 box I randomly sshed into just now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What editor is more feature-rich then vim? Out the box it is lacking some sane config but it is one of the more powerful and flexible editors out there - more then a rival for any modern IDE.

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