this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
9 points (100.0% liked)

linuxmemes

20776 readers
211 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
9
Text editor war (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Low quality meme

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I was talking with a sysadmin once who intentionally removed nano and emacs from any system he was granted access to. His explanation was “if they can’t use vim I don’t want them on my machines”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Brilliant! I don't entirely disagree with that. I had vim forced on me at my old job, including actual vi on some of the more ancient systems. I got so used to it that I don't really know how to use nano and definitely not emacs.

I never understood what the big deal was. Write. Quit. If you can't remember that 'w' means write and 'q' means quit, I don't know how else to help. Add in some decent options in your vimrc and it is pretty comfortable. I am in no way some guru who knows every shortcut and fancy command out there, but I like using it and it is the first thing I install on a new system.

I am not one to judge what text editor, OS, phone, car, or computer you like. You do you. If I was a sysadmin that had to deal with people who really shouldn't be on those systems and that was an easy way to discourage people from screwing with it, then hell yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Knowing VIM does not make one a better sys-admin. You can be an idiot, and still know how to drive Vi/Vim. There is FAR FAR FAR more to managing an OS and than that. If you think requiring VIM is enough to keep unknowledgeable people away from servers, you are probably the one who shouldn't be managing servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn't want to be on their machines either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a sysadmin at my place who does exactly that. He's kind of an idiot too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Shocked