Why is VIM so confusing?

Why is VIM so confusing?

Nano is simplistic and cute!

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emacs best girl

They're both cute but vi/vim is the modest school genius while nano is dependable, tries her best, but still only achieves slightly above average.

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Did you do the tutorial, user?
Vim isn't confusing at all once you've done the tutorial.
vimtutor

Emacs is the girl that always tries to one-up the vim

>Vim
>Confusing

It's actually the second easiest programmer editor, after nano.

From most confusing to less:
>sam
>ed
>emacs-like
>acme
>vi-like
>nano

pico > nano

I've been using Vim for almost 15 years. This is 99% of what you need to remember:
Keep your fingers in the right place (sdfg / hjkl, ie middle fingers on F and J).
Always use hjkl in normal and visual modes.
w moves one Word forward.
e moves to the End of each word.
b moves one word Backward.
i Inserts before the cursor.
I Inserts in the beginning of the paragraph.
a Add text After the cursor.
A Add text at the end of the paragraph.
d Deletes something (dw deletes a word), but it works like "cut".
u Undo.
C-r redo.
r replace.
R is like insert key.
f Finds character (repeat with ;).
F finds backward.
/ search.
n Next.
y Yeld.
p Paste.
c Change something (ci" Change Inside quotes).
m Marks the current location (ma move around then `a to go back).
* over some word will search for that word.
:s is for substitution
:%s same but in the whole file
Example s/foo/bar/g (learn your regex)
or you can * foo and then just s/bar/g
:h for Help.
:w Writes current file.
:s Saves into a new file.
:q Quit.
:q! force Quit.
:qa Quite All
For visual mode (select) you want to use v something, for instance, to select the following 3 words you would do v3w.
g go somewhere (see gg and G).
{ and } move to next paragraph. See also ( ) and %
:100 move to line 100
q for macros (esc to stop). @ to run them.
C-w window stuff (see split for example).
Use C-w in insert mode to delete the last word, like with any readline program.
o and O to insert a new line over the current line or after.
J will Join lines.

As you can see, Vim is pretty obvious and easy to remember.

forgot about C-d (like page Down) and C-u (Up).

I still dont understand the need for both a and i.

I vim and use the cursor keys, insert, home, end, and page up/down keys.
Fight me.

She one-ups because she knows she's #1.

>I visited Cred Forums and all I got was this effeminate animeme posting

vi werks, it's simple to use after using each of the functions a few times, just like anything else

what is wrong with you, OP?

The fact you use vim already makes you an awesome person.
No need to fight.
You need to come on your own to efficient use of vim.

If you want to be a pleb, at least use micro

Today seems like a good day for a flame war.
Vi is literally the cancer of the earth and emacs is the greatest thing since GNU+Linux

Boku no?

Good luck finding Emacs in other UNICes by default.

this is the correct text editing ethos

emacs and nano both beat small children in the streets of third world countries to film and upload to liveleak

meanwhile you can find vi in almost any soup kitchen helping the hungry

That's okay. Emacs should only be used by the purest, not passed around like a whore

Sh-h-h-h...
On your own.

now you know how notepad feels

Nano is literally Notepad.

If you want to use a pleb editor in the terminal there are other choices like mcedit, slap or joe,

Of course, when you grow a pair you'll use Vim like the rest of us.

Why aren't there yet editor-tans yet? We have OS and browser tans, but no editor tans. Time for vim, nano, emacs, etc to get some.

what are you even talking about, is this another anime thing?

What is a tan?

so you don't have to move the cursor as much

Are you joking? You seriously haven't heard of OS-tan or browser-tan?

put cursor somewhere
caw =change a word(deletes word and switches to insert mode)
c5w = change 5 words.
ci( = change inside brackets
move cursor and press . = do what i just did back there here too.
dd =delete a line, then p = put it somewhere else

Cancer. avatars for software

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

>Calling anime cancer on an anime website

>sam
>confusing
>acme
>more confusing than vi

Nano for simple edits
Emacs for real programming

she's calling them cancer for not knowing what it is

Oh, my mistake then. I mistook it as user was calling OS/browser-tans cancer.

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so a mascot

you're asking if vim has a mascot?

japan didn't invent everything, using their words for things doesn't make life better

i don't understand why some of you folks insist on having everything here transposed in japanese allegory

that said, sounds fun. you should draw them

>w moves one Word forward.
>e moves to the End of each word.
>b moves one word Backward.
literally the only time I use these is when recording macros

also you missed _plenty_ of IMO absolutely essential commands, like c-] or c-o/i. I couldn't even imagine navigating a codebase without them.

>Keep your fingers in the right place (sdfg / hjkl
Are you fucking retarded?

The only time I use a is in its capital form, i.e. A (append to end of line).

As for why lower-case a exists, it's a consistency thing I guess.

japanese 'otaku culture' stuff isn't exotic foreign LOL JAPAN XD stuff to weaboos, its familiar and normal hobby/nerd stuff. Using terms from or inspired by it isn't insisting on anything, its just natural.
-tan has more general use in japan. to my understanding its supposed to be how a child would say '-chan'.
Regardless, its not exactly the same as 'mascot.' Its certainly a kind of mascot, but using the [x]-tan meme specifically describes a moe mascot. IE, cute anime girl mascot.
Mascots are furries who're allowed to appear in public. a [thing]-tan is a moe personification.

yeah weaboos are a problem, those people are weakening the entire race

let the japs poison themselves. whites are above that.

>:s is for substitution
>Example s/foo/bar/g (learn your regex)
pretty much the same as bash history substitution
!!:s/cat/less/ = run last command but with less instead of cat

I fear for my white brethren, for they have fallen for the Moe

reading about it on wiki for a couple secs it seems pretty perverted and beta

the tans are supposed to "lead to sexual feelings and desires" and yet half are drawn as pre-adolescent

what a bunch of pervert psychopaths

This is an anime website love it or leave it

this

im gonna make fun of animeme people and keep posting and there's nothing you can do about it

weebs r 2 sensitive

>Cant recognize deliberate shitposting

lad...

racist shit like that is what plagues our website and it's our duty to point these deplorables to their basket.

hakase editor when?

haha epic bait friend xDDDD

nah, the real problem is a bunch of degenerate manchilds making cartoons the entire point of their journey through life, embarrassing and emasculating the other nerds who just want to read shitposts about broken software

Is there a reason I shouldn't just be using gedit?

THREADS GONE TO SHIT

nothing more embarrassing than your (excuse my language) bull c*ap rhetoric

>getting b8ed this hard

wew m8

nothing more embarrassing than people posting on Cred Forums like it's a grade 4 conference

if anime people want to post anime pictures and say weeb things that's fine, but them insisting that everything is anime is sad, it takes away from other things by trying to make it all the same

i guess the japs are pretty xenophobic and like things to be uniform though. maybe it's just a running theme, or meme if you will.

Anime is garbage. I rather have pepe posted, it's a classic Cred Forums meme.

>them insisting that everything is anime is sad,
Well what do you expect when you come to an anime website

This website was founded by weebs for weebs...

that's not how Cred Forums works, im so sorry

that's exactly how it works

it's a good thing then because damn i love making weebs defend themselves

weakening the entire

4"chan". It's even in the name buddy.

you might prefer something like reddit, they're really fond of all that alt-right nonsense.

reddit is fine people gift me lots of gold, but to interact with true social rejects i have to come here and meme a bit, and you people come out of the woodwork

"you have to go back"

>3 shitposters and a simultaneous altright/normalfaggot
threads gone post traps

Enjoy your ban faggot

dump ingcoming Cred Forumsros!!