Just tell yourself that vim is really actually vi wearing a snazzy new hat, and that you’re the spring chicken in a romance with a distinguished yet energetic 45 year old partner.
You........ You just took my weird feelings about this to an extreme new level....... Guess it's gonna be another night of contemplating my life choices, huh.
Yeah I remember using vi in the 80s. Still use it now over vim or eMacs for the simple reason that vi is always installed.
I’ve never understood that argument. That’s like saying you prefer to walk everywhere because your car (which you already own) might not always have a full tank of gas.
Much of the reason Vi(m) is still in use today is because it’s guaranteed to be on pretty much any *nix box. When it’s 3AM and you’re trying to rewrite /etc/lstab from scratch and the network won’t come up… there’s no way you’re installing emacs or nano.
I never said that using vi when no alternatives were installed was unacceptable.
It’s just habit at this point. eMacs, vim, nano, etc was not allowed to be installed on so many systems I’ve used, and not having permissions to install them, I just stick with vi and the muscle memory I have for its keybindings.
On most GNU/Linux systems, vi is usually Vim running in vi-compatible mode (it also has an Ex mode if you’d like even less bells and whistles).
Honestly, ex mode would be such a good idea … if it didn’t clear the entire goddamn screen when it started up! The whole point of using a line editor is that it shouldn’t take up the entire screen.
vi resolves to vim on all major OS releases these days, as the Lord intended