Why is vim so fucking shit. Its the worst text editor i have ever fuking seen in my life. Its so fucking hard to use

Why is vim so fucking shit. Its the worst text editor i have ever fuking seen in my life. Its so fucking hard to use.

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It's really not that hard dude

Just play nethack for a few hours and you'll get hte basics down

bait didnt work

I know how you feel but I don't think it's shit -- why else do so many people use it? It's not that it's shit, it's just that you don't understand it.

Also, this:

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>exit
>q/q!

>save and exit
>x

>save
>w

Yep, Vi/Vim really seems difficult. I hear you, buddy.

Run vimtutor. Also, start using it for all your actual editing if you want to improve. Luke Smith has some good vim videos. He runs through vimtutor and adds in some extra stuff.

this beats Vim

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Cuckoune is better than vim? How?

it's well designed

Kak has a noticeable delay. Using it in server/client approach makes it load instantly.
kaku() {
[[ -z "$(kak -l | grep $USER)" ]] && kak -d -s $USER
kak -c $USER $@
}

Vim is very easy to use. The problem is you suck at computers.

t. brainlet

imagine controlling your cursor by switching "modes" and awkwardly pressing a row of letters, instead of simply moving your hand to the dedicated arrow keys

It's okay for doing basic config editing in a terminal, but I think it's archaic as fuck.

Just stop.
You're obviously never going to understand Vim.
Stick to nano or some GUI shit or whatever, just stop using Vim. We don't need more brainlet faggots like you in the community. It's bad enough they come in droves now thanks to ecelebs and get confused at the simplest shit possible.
Unless you've discovered and learned vim all on your own through nothing but months and years of practice and experimentation, you have no business using the best editor. Vim requires dedication, and dedication is not "oh I've seen this get mentioned on the internet I'm gonna try it out".

it doesn't even have structural expressions

imagine taking a bait that idiotic

Vis> kakoune > neovim >vim

>Its so fucking hard to use
well that explains it

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you have low iq, user

lua is bullshit language and vis is buggy

> vis is buggy
How so?

>Bullshit
May be, but it's definitely better than Vimscript.

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Fuck vim use ed instead Because when I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

Oh shit i was using wq to write and quit this whole time. I love vim because you always learn something new about it

I like it. It makes me feel like a super hacker knowing pointless but easy commands that are useless to almost everyone.

not an editor

Vim is one of those "You must be this smart to go on the ride." editors.

Sorry, you're not one of the chosen ones.

>You can use it to edit text
>Not a text editor
Yeah, I don't really know what else to say besides "Nice Meme".

nano > vim

>implying you went through the vimtutor
>also bad bait, Jow Forums is Vim loving board

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basED

basED and EDpilled

It's a cute operating system whose editor is sorely lacking

/thread

cringED

go back to EDdit

TL;DR

What the fuck is this bro, get your blog to reddit

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Vim is all about reducing the barrier between your mental interface and your computer. If you don't care about that, just don't use it. If you do, look into Vim's mnemonic keybindings and its modal editing and see if the model makes sense to you.

If you don't care about that and you still use a text editor or IDE regularly, if you haven't already, look into undo branches, macros, and efficient file navigation in your editor. These type of features are powerful and one of the big reasons people tell you to use Vim.

As long as you're not coming into my work and getting me to refactor everything for you or taking 2 weeks to sling a simple component, I don't care. Can we stop talking about this now?

>need to edit some config on a remote machine
Non-vim user:
>change terminal
>scp the file to your machine
>edit with whatever have
>scp it back
>return to terminal with ssh session
Vim user:
>open file with vim with opened ssh session
>edit and save changes
Come on now, man

/thrED

gED out, newfriEnD

This, knowing how to use vi/vim is practically a requirement for any sort of embedded dev or sysadmin work.

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>i for actually editing text like a normal nonautistic person
>esc+:x to save and quit and go back to using a proper intuitive editor
Did I qualify?

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if you edit sysfiles with vim, saving and quiting is really quick :

esc
shift + z + z

Wowzers, 1 less keystroke.
I feel so much more productive and enlightened now.
thanks fren

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It's not intended to be easy to get into, it's for people who are willing to get used to it to benefit from it's increased productivity, which really doesn't take that long.

nano has a terrible UI. The least you can do is
sudo apt install ne

t. normie

>people using vim due to e-celebs

wait, which e-celebs are promoting vim use?

You don't switch modes. Normal mode is normal.

I concur.

Luke Smith

Emacs user:
>open any file placed anywhere transparently (no difference whether local or remote)
>edit and save changes