Are people using Vim doing it for the sake of it? Is there such a thing as a Vim hipster?

I mean, nano is just nicer 😇

Nano shows its cards, very easy for new users. Vim is a mystical beast with powerful magic. What it comes down to is, do you want to be monk, or do you want to be an arcane mage?

I hate nano

e-emacs?

VIM is really good for editing text fast. That's why I use it. You can edit much faster than with nano. And it's included in most UNIX systems, which is why I use it over emacs.

It has quite a steep learning curve, however when you learn it, it's really good.

A vim hipster is also known as a neckbeard :^)

Nano would be fine for small edits, but vim is much more powerful

@devs If I saw a system without emacs I would type ^D immediately.

nano? Seriously.

Hey, I hear ya buddy. I started learning Vi only because I read it's what "serious" developers use. Right. I don't use it for development, but it comes in handy when I have to SSH into my VPS and adjust something in /etc. It's a really good text editor but honestly you'll be just fine with Nano.

"Powerful"... But... How is it. Surely being more productive is powerful? If you are more productive in vim, fair enough.

But you can't just throw out a buzzword.

@Michael-Hancock without custom keybindings, macros and the . command it's not really productive. but when you get to using all three it's like a whole new world of productivity. got a repetitive task use macros. need to run a script once in a while use keybindings(tmux and vimux). got to rerun a vim command in a few places use hjkl to navigate and push .

@Michael-Hancock that's just the tip of the iceberg though, I've been using it as my development environment with a few plugins and custom keybindings to use pandora. the first week I used it I wasn't that productive, second week I was back to what I was before, now I'm using 3dd to delete 3 lines, 5yy to copy 5 lines, u to undo, P to paste above the cursor. and I'm alot quicker doing stuff than I was with intellij, the power of vim is its plugins. I've been more productive than ever this last two weeks

Try writing vimtutor in the terminal for a great tutorial on using vim. You'll never use nano again!

@spl0 we have a lot of oracle VMs at work, and none of them has emacs

@devs Fire the DBA