vi text editor

“First time I opened vi I had to power cycle the computer to get out of it.”

“text editors like vi (or emacs or whatever else you prefer in the category) really do have major benefits”

“Vi’s appeal is that it is “just” an editor and your terminal and workstation form your un-integrated development environment.”

“vi is part of every standard Unix install, so when you ssh into a box, you'll always have your editor”

“is vi infinitely faster than vscode for manipulating a codebase? Absolutely.”

“so much of what makes the tools great is reliant on said historical and esoteric behaviour”

“not knowing vi is almost professional negligence if you are on the terminal”

“these few bits are flexible and powerful enough to cover my needs”

“My favorite features are the ranges on the commands (like substitute or delete)”

“You can and should learn vi (and ed!) in one afternoon even if you never use them.”

“One advantage of vi is that even though emacs is available on all those systems, vi is actually installed on all of those”

“It just works far more naturally for me and thousands of other people”

“I can code faster than anybody who I know and use vi all the time”

“even ancient editors like vi it means printing out or having the commands listed in a window to reference”

“I use it to "massage" data in all sorts of files, with thousands to millions of lines, in no time at all.”

“I often find myself unconsciously reverting to vi-language and getting confused”

“The fundamental advantage of vi is that it doesn't have a mouse”

“Vi is more efficient for him every hour every day because he has been able to learn it”

“The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.”

“Tough learning curve! Seemed ridiculous at first, then I developed a mini set of editing skills and got used to it!”

“as I ssh to the server anyway to run commands, I'm editing the files with vi there”

“I figured out that I had just learned the editor I would want to stick with for years”

“Gotten me out of many a pickle being able to reliably edit a file quickly.”

“vi when I am moving though different machines that have minimal tooling”

“Once you get used to it, it is painful to go back.”

“Maybe not good, but tenacious. Once you have a muscle memory, it's rarely worth the effort to switch.”

“There's a reason Emacs and vi have been around for decades. They're good.”

“Even with vi (which lacks windows), you can make do with marks (bookmarks on lines)”

“That was when I trained my vi muscle memory.”

“vi meanwhile is pretty bloated though has ex filters which are a huge step up from the standard editor”

“These days I use vi for quick edits like someone above mentioned and like it more than any later replacement”

“It is perfect for this, as is tiny, present out of the box on many distros”

“Vi is primitive and clunky not because it's a bad design, but because it's from 1976”

“they have incredibly steep learning curves, but I think many of their users would consider their UXes to be very good”

“And even Emacs is more intuitive compared to the modal-nature of Vi.”

“I've been doing that since the early nineties. First vi, later Vim.”

“The hoops you hav to jump through to get vi to switch into a blank screen and then drop back and re-render your previous terminal.”

“Which is like some super old version of it that can't do like anything you'd be used to from a VIM.”

“The "dot" command alone has saved years of work”

“I'd just hang up the modem because I never could figure out how to get out of it”