[haiku-development] Re: Vim episodes. IV. It is ready to breathe...

  • From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:59:54 +0200

2009/5/8 Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>

It was the same for me. Then I read the manual and now I can use it decently.
The problem is that you are supposed to read some documentation to use
something correctly. Always.

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