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What's your favorite command line text editor and why is it Vim?

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  • 7
    8y
    I've always used nano
  • 1
    8y
    Come on, you know it's not vim.
  • 1
    8y
    Internet explorer
  • 15
    8y
    I'm ":q!"ing out of this debate.
  • 0
    8y
    @TheNotorious dito 👍🏽
  • 2
    8y
    @Letmecode you can't leave us! Vim is love, Vim is life!
  • 2
    8y
    Recently someone at work has got me into spacemacs it's all the vim commands ported into Emacs and give you a bunch of nice features such as git gutter and linting
  • 0
    8y
    @SCollins Ill be honest, I've never tried emacs. I think I'll take a look at spacemacs tomorrow.
  • 1
    8y
    @iDanoo Emacs is really powerful and spacemacs help's by allowing you to use it like vim. Use 'Spc + :' for a searchable list of all commands and there key combinations and GOOD LUCK. It's alot to remember...
  • 0
    8y
    crontab -e
    ???
    :q
    EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano crontab -e

    Ahh.. Much better 😁
  • 0
    8y
    I don't usually have a need to use a command line editor so I usually use something like VS code or Atom.
  • 0
    8y
    Almost said Atom 🤐
  • 0
    8y
    Back in the 1980s vi was wonderful compared to having to do everything with ed.

    Fast forward a few years, and Emacs is wonderful compared to having to do everything in vi....

    *Ducks and runs for cover*
  • 0
    8y
    VI is present on every distribution, if you can get used to it, this is nice.
  • 0
    8y
    I always used Nano, then a colleague saw me using it and he freaked out. He showed me some Vim stuff and from that point I've just used Vim. If you learn the shortcuts it's awesome.
  • 0
    8y
    alias emacs=vi
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