[haiku-development] Re: Vim episodes. IV. It is ready to breathe...
- From: Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:52:19 +0200
2009/5/7 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I would argue people who use the shell always need to know what they
> are doing.
> If you are not only remotely connected to a system, you would use a
> real editor, anyway.
I disagree. Do we really want that kind of mentality, that you already
have to know what you're doing before you start using the shell? Do we
really want to use something that most users and some devs can't work
with as a default editor?
(Yes it's really powerful, but it's very unintuitive. Here is how I use it:
Every time I get thrown into vi without me expecting it, like doing
svn commit which uses the default editor I get really frustrated and
annoyed. (In fact I want to throw the computer out the window). I
usually use CTRL-Z and kill the process, because it's very unintuitive
to even learn basic commands like help or quit.)
Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH
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