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excannuk • today at 1:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That's not an empty set? I'm an eMacs guy, and I use vi when on the shell


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graemep • today at 4:13 PM

I think there are a lot of people who are not comfortable with vi. Its much the same reason that some Linux distros default to nano.

I spend a fair bit of time on Linux command lines, but I use a mix of different TUI and GUI editors (including ones that work over ssh for editing files on servers), and none of those are vi. I can manage vi if I must, but its an effort and distracts from the task because I have to think about how to do things in vi.

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