<div dir="auto">After many years of usage, I stopped using CLI quite some time back. But still use vi kind of editors a few times. This reminds me of the best editor I ever used -- BRIEF . Just checked that Wikipedia page and found that few things in vim come from brief !! Just check the features in it that are even today very useful and innovative!! And those were available in the eighties on a dos environment!! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Check out the wiki page here: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Sudhanwa</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 9:02 AM Tejas Sanap <<a href="mailto:sanap.tejas@gmail.com">sanap.tejas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hey, folks!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As the world rides the "VS Code" wave and it's extensive list of extensions that are easy to set up and even easier to configure, some of us, stick to the Old Way of Vim. However, as effective as vi/vim may be, it presents a considerable learning curve, especially, to the novice command line user, it just seems too much to handle all at once and thus, they either move to "nano" or abandon command line text editors, altogether.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But, the vim community, offers great documentation and there are tons of blogs written by vim-users, all over the internet. Captain Pike, from the USS Enterprise, once said, "the best way to swim in a cold stream, is to jump right in", and it is also true in the case of vim.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Using vim for all your editing tasks, is the fastest way to learn and the easiest way to appreciate vim.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The best source of vim-related things is the "r/vim"[3] sub-reddit.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The best place to clarify your vim doubts, is the #vim IRC channel.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The best collection of vim-hacks for the most common issues realated to vim is, the vim-wikia[4].</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The most accurate, detailed and dependable source of information for any vim feature is the "in-built" documentation[5].</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The links [1] and [2] are good beginner resources.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[1]: <a href="https://kadekillary.work/post/learn-vim/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://kadekillary.work/post/learn-vim/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[2]: <a href="http://vimcasts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://vimcasts.org/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[3]: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[4]: <a href="https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[5]: <a href="https://www.vim.org/docs.php" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.vim.org/docs.php</a></div><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Tejas Sanap.<br>(whereistejas on Freenode)<br><a href="https://whereistejas.me" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://whereistejas.me</a></div></div>
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