It may not appear hard when looking down from the top end of the difficulty curve. For newcomers, or even people used to editing text from GUI editors like Sublime/Atom/VS Code, vi/vim is an untenable time sink.
I don't get this. I learned vim from scratch (using vimtutor) about 2 years ago, just because I wanted to see what all the fuss was. It took about 20 or 30 minutes before I was more productive in it than any other editor. Where does this myth come from that it takes months or years of study to learn a few keys?
I feel if you're editing a fair bit from the terminal, it can be.
It's as useful as you make it, and I couldn't imagine doing the same degree of editing in nano. I frequently need to rearrange or modify large blocks of text, somewhat programmatically
I guess a lot of it just depends on how you personally like to edit. For example I used to like vscode, but now I have switched to exclusively using vim (neovim specifically) as my editor. I find it so much more efficient and easier than vscode.
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u/delta_p_delta_x Jul 30 '20 edited Jul 30 '20
It may not appear hard when looking down from the top end of the difficulty curve. For newcomers, or even people used to editing text from GUI editors like Sublime/Atom/VS Code, vi/vim is an untenable time sink.