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Originally Posted by ahi
I can (somewhat) program, make websites, build computers, install and reinstall OSes... but I haven't yet figured out how to either edit text files in Vi/VIM... or for that matter how to even simply quite the program.
Is it wise to suggest to a person of moderate computing know-how to use Vi or Vim?
- Ahi
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It depends on their age and background. When I first started working in the Computing field, everybody that used UNIX knew VI well, tech savvy or not.
Now there are so many alternatives that is not a safe assumption.
VI is by no means a developer/coder's tool. It is just a very quick and powerful text editor, power in the form of efficiency, where using a mouse just slows you down.
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