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Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It's the lingua franca of text editors.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

:q!

[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don't)

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.

[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Really? Not that I'd notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn't be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it's 59KB)

Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)