[kwlug-disc] I give up, but with one question

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Does vim have nano mode? Then I'll vim all the way! 🙂
>

So you haven't tried Emacs, I gather?

Kidding aside ...

Vim's root is in vi, which stands for "visual" editor.
It was developed for UNIX in the late 70s, and had less RAM footprint than
Emacs.
It was also what is available on any UNIX system (at least the ones I
worked on),
unlike Emacs, which had to be compiled.

Vim is just "Vi improved" which is an the FLOSS clone of vi.

The difficulty of vi/vim is that you have several modes.
There is what can be called navigation mode (moving around the text).
Then there line mode, which starts with :, e.g. :%s/foo/bar/gc
This line mode is the same as other older UNIX editors, such as ex.
Then there is insert mode (e.g. i, o, a, s, ...), which you exit by
pressing Esc.
Once you "get" these modes, and develop muscle memory, things become
second nature, despite looking arcane and complex to those who haven't
learned vim.

Today there are other options, like nano and pico, and all the GUI editors.
So vi/vim is no longer a necessity as it was decades ago.
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