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Letting a windows programmer use vi in an interview is just cruel. I mean, I like vim after months of practice, but just exiting vi(m) is notoriously hard for a newbie.

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I'd agree if they were forced to use vi, but it seems like vi is just an option.

>I open gedit for them to use, with the offer that they can use any other Unix editor they like.

I wonder if he required using vi when that Windows programmer interviewed or if the Windows guy chose to use vi.

Being able to use vim at a basic level doesn't really take all that long to learn. Sure, there's the memes about vim being impossible to escape, but it's really not that hard to learn how to do so.

the cruel part is that it adds to the candidates nervousness. so i avoid that, but otherwise i agree, especially if it is a modern version where arrow keys and backspace work in insert mode, so one doesn't even need to use command mode to make corrections.

I learned vi by being too lazy to change my default editor in git..

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