• veng@lemmy.world
    162·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used vim for so many years now that it blows my mind when people act like it’s difficult to use.

    The same thing with installing Arch and even Gentoo … if you’ve got good experience with something like redhat/centos and can read documentation it’s a breeze.

    • xtapa@feddit.de
      4·
      2 years ago

      What? A task gets easier the more experience you got with it? I think you’re in for a Nobel price or something.

    • ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Installing Arch really is not what it’s made out to be anymore. Bootstrapping a system manually is like a half hour affair for me (maybe). It’s just fixing systemd-boot because inevitably I misconfigured it. And for people who don’t even wanna do that, archinstall.

    • nautilus@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      casual nano fan here. can’t stand vim, if my text editor has its own command line then there’s a problem lol

      at least we can all come together and say that emacs is the worst

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 years ago

    The dad is no longer thinking about his daughter by the time he answers that guy.

  • Sentinian@lemmy.one
    3·
    2 years ago

    Memes like this always make we wonder the original version of it. I am dying to know the original context of why the father doesn’t want the boyfriend to pull out

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      The father didn’t believe the boy’s claim and dared him to demonstrate exiting Vim without pulling out the power cable that night.

    • tal@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m on the emacs side of things, but knowing at least the bare minimum of vim is handy, because I have run into into systems (usually very small systems like routers or something) where some vi variant is available and nothing else is. Though as systems get bigger, it has become more the norm to have at least nano also available.

      I’d know at least this:

      • i to enter insert mode. Then you can edit as in a non-modal editor.

      • Esc to exit insert mode and go back to normal mode.

      • h, j, k, l move left, down, up, and right. The fingers under your right hand on a QWERTY keyboard.

      • / to start a regex search

      • % and then SRC/REPLACEMENT to do a regex replacement.

      • :q to exit without saving changes.

      • :wq to save and exit.

      That’s enough to perform a couple of small edits or something if need be.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
        1·
        2 years ago

        Also another important one is :q! if you want to quit without saving changes, though vim will remind you if you leave off the ! in case you forget.

        • sneezy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Fun fact, you can also press ZQ in normal mode to exit without saving.