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Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> It seems some people stumble upon it by accident, more or less. Just met

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> one on saturday. It went something like this: "what do you study?"

> "computing science" "Linux user?" "Yep" *imagine funky face* "Tried to

> use vi or something once for some fluid dynamics thing, we used [bla]

> instead".

> Just a single case and no idea how exactly he stumbled upon it, but it

> was obvious that he a) associated Linux with vi(m) and b) was put off

> fast by vi(m). I doubt a nicer introduction could have helped in this

> case though, simply because vi(m) is a really complex beast and you

> either invest time to learn what you need to learn about it or you can't

> use it. There's no way around investing time with this thing.

At the other end of the scale, I've been on Linux since 1996 and

Unix systems since 1988 and I still avoid vi/vim whenever I can.
I can edit config files with vi/vim, but I simply can't code with

it because it chews up too much of my mental attention doing the

basics in the damn editor.
Erik

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Erik de Castro Lopo

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