I started off with emacs, didn't like it and switched to vi. Within a day. The first time I ever used Linux. It was when I was 14 (late starter, I know) and went and did work experience in the Swinburne astrophysics/supercomputing centre; my supervisor showed me what I needed to edit in text files to run simulations on, and she was using vi but she showed me emacs as she figured it'd be easier for me to use/had a somewhat more familiar interface. She came back that afternoon and was all "You figured out how to use vi by yourself?!"
(This is possibly the nerdiest discussion yet... But I will continue...)
Vi commands do have the look of line noise to the uninitiated. Why do I need to hit escape to edit stuff???
What's really scary is I just fired it up in Cygwin just now, and I've forgotten a lot of the key strokes! How did that happen??? I'd better go home and run Goatboy (my linux machine) some more...
And for some reason I'm not surprised you were doing Astrophysics as work experience, and further find that mental image highly amusing :-)
(I learnt Vi at Uni in 1994. And now I miss it...)
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Re: Vim
vim >>>> vi though. ♥
Re: Vim
Vi commands do have the look of line noise to the uninitiated. Why do I need to hit escape to edit stuff???
What's really scary is I just fired it up in Cygwin just now, and I've forgotten a lot of the key strokes! How did that happen??? I'd better go home and run Goatboy (my linux machine) some more...
And for some reason I'm not surprised you were doing Astrophysics as work experience, and further find that mental image highly amusing :-)
(I learnt Vi at Uni in 1994. And now I miss it...)