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Would you drive a Yaris if you had a Ferrari in your garage? Didn't think so
I'd rather drive the Yaris to pick up groceries and the Ferrari to movie premieres and races. I don't see much value in having an Uber powerful editor for git commits.
Some developers perform fairly complex edits when preparing commit messages.
My first year of grad school I was a TA for a first year computer science course that was often taken by students from a variety of majors. The first editing sessions I spent the whole lab time running around help students with frozen vi editors. The main problem is you don't start in "edit mode" and students expect to be able to just start typing (which is a reasonable expectation). Who knows what "command" they jus…
Why not just write the basic instructions up on the board? Or give them a handout with the basic command keys?
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Sure, why not something like pico / nano? Seems more friendly to occasional users, who are the people most likely to hit the default.
Would you drive a Yaris if you had a Ferrari in your garage? Didn't think so
Would you drive an unwanted Yaris that came installed with your house, if there was no downside to using your Ferrari: no fuel economy, no damage risk? Of course not.
I don't worry that Vim is going to be scratched by a runaway shopping cart, or go through 80 dollars of gas in a week.
When it comes to cars, people would in fact drive the Yaris.
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That sounds like someone's idea of a practical joke. Assigning vi as a default editor for first year CS students has to be an efficiently cruel way to clear out an overpacked classroom for the semester.
For the cost of tuition, that should be banned.
It's the same way you exit ed and TECO. Kids today don't know anything.
but kids these days know other things that you don't. They don't know it because it is not relevant enough to them and vice versa.
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That sounds like someone's idea of a practical joke. Assigning vi as a default editor for first year CS students has to be an efficiently cruel way to clear out an overpacked classroom for the semester.
For the cost of tuition, that should be banned.
I remember taking an introductory course in our undergraduate pre-med track which was basically just a new presentation about novel research every week. The exams would be on these fairly specialized papers which most first-year students were at a loss to understand, so they ended up being exercises in rote memorization.
When some of us complained to a TA that we didn't see how we could learn enough to understand the concepts without just memorizing key points and angling at the professors to find out what was important, their response was something along the lines of, "then are you really sure that you want to study biology and medicine for the next umpteen years?"
On the other hand, I hate telling people that a field "isn't for them" just because they don't feel like putting up with the bullshit which has accreted around the way that a subject is currently taught.
Personally, I'd like to see an introductory class about how to effectively search for answers online, find useful sources, ignore ads and obvious SEO-gaming, etc.
First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.
A professional would use the man page.
Professional typists?
They are unlikely to even know what man is.
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That sounds like someone's idea of a practical joke. Assigning vi as a default editor for first year CS students has to be an efficiently cruel way to clear out an overpacked classroom for the semester.
For the cost of tuition, that should be banned.
Hot take: Vim should include a simple “Type :qa! to quit” line in its startup message. Something makes me think it would clear up a lot of confusion for first time users. EDIT: I notice now that it has a “Type :q to exit.” I never noticed that before, and I use Vim most days, so I can see how others might miss it too.
Anyone easily confused by how to quit vim should not be using a computer at all, much less vim.