OK so normally I really like minimalistic setups, and generally find minimal software better to use. I would frequent the minimalism threads when they showed up.
Well in one of them, someone suggested using nvi instead of vim.
I tried it and holy fuck it sucks.
>no indicators at the bottom to let you know what mode you're in
>no visual selection modes
>>Without Visual Block (CTRL-v), you can't comment out/uncomment a bunch of lines as easily
>no g commands.
>>you can hit G to go to the bottom, but without gg you can't go back to the top. Have fun hitting k!
>>without gj, gk, g$, and g0, you can't easily traverse a long line that's longer than the screen and has wrapped visually
>no highlighting for parentheses, brackets, and curly braces
>>GuixSD gives you vi and not vim, and has you write a scheme config file
>>>It was not fun