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I really love my vim bindings, I try to use them everywhere possible. So far that is: Web browser: Vimium plugin (Chrome) Music player: Cmus Terminal multiplexer: Tmux & Screen Terminal pager: GNU Less I'm still trying to figure out how best to use vim bindings in my z-shell (zsh) and ipython interactive sessions.
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For the cost of tuition, that should be banned.
Too many people go to college today. A degree used to carry prestige. Now it mainly shows you're impulsive enough to take out $60,000+ in debt when you don't even know what you want to major in.
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So the information IS there but, in any case, a professional would not continue to stumble and fumble and give up on the editor as so many amateurs do.
A professional would be able to reconfigure the system afterwards to make sure it'll never drop them into this annoying to use editor again.
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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.
There is value in having just one editor. Some developers perform fairly complex edits when preparing commit messages.
In cars, it's more like your airbnb host tosses you the keys & asks if you can park it in the basement quickly while he opens up. Much better a Yaris than a stick-shift V12 monster with no rear window.
Here’s the proper fix. In your .bashrc, or wherever: export EDITOR= anything but vim >
Vim works fine. I use EMACS. TextMate, Atom and Sublime are OK. Any mainstream editor is fine is all but a few corner cases. Truth be told I would be fine without EMACS but maybe less happy. People unable to exit Vim is just a sign of a larger problem, that a generation of programmer relies more on Google and Stack Overflow than simply READING documentation and EXPERIMENTING by writing short little throw away program…
I think you should take a broader look at the world.
> these defective programmers can't even use Google properly.
Try searching "how to exit vim" in google... see what the first result is... .
If everyone around you looks like an idiot, you can probably figure out who the real idiot is. Or maybe not.
But hey, maybe you're a natural talent who knows by instinct how to exit VIM.
Only thise morning I was not even able to exit by using q! either. I did something good in my life or parents that some random keys hitting made me to exit it.
Probably in the wrong (input) mode? Does ctrl-s freeze vim?
It's handy when something is dumping tons of stuff in the terminal.
Here's the explanation of where it comes from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137842/what-is-the-...
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A professional would be able to reconfigure the system afterwards to make sure it'll never drop them into this annoying to use editor again.
A professional isn't annoyed by vim.
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Too many people go to college today. A degree used to carry prestige. Now it mainly shows you're impulsive enough to take out $60,000+ in debt when you don't even know what you want to major in.
Or, just being 17/18 years old without a clue in the world and tons of external pressures to take on that debt.
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Too many people go to college today. A degree used to carry prestige. Now it mainly shows you're impulsive enough to take out $60,000+ in debt when you don't even know what you want to major in.
Or, just being 17/18 years old without a clue in the world and tons of external pressures to take on that debt.
My kid was uncertain and stressed by the pressure to make a decision; once he decided "I won't" his stress went away and his grades shot up. Instead of going to college at 18 he got a job. A year after graduating he knew what he wanted and got into a good school in a program he wanted.
What shocked me is how much disapproval he received from his classmates and the school (especially the "guidance" counselor). "Loser", "what's wrong with you?", "are you too stupid to get into college" (asked one of his fellow AP Calc classmates).
Apparently the approved path is to get into a school and ask to defer for a year. Deciding you're not ready seems to threaten everybody's assumptions.