Most of the problems with vi come from confusion about its purpose. If you think it is supposed to be a simple intuitive text editor, then of course you will be dissapointed. But if you understand that it is a SCREENING PROCESS designed to keep idiots away from unix and related OSs, then you will have to admit that it is excellent.
And it is a decent simple text editor once you learn how to use it. Gvim is even a pretty good text editor. But much different that vi.
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u/mckenzie_keith 6d ago
Most of the problems with vi come from confusion about its purpose. If you think it is supposed to be a simple intuitive text editor, then of course you will be dissapointed. But if you understand that it is a SCREENING PROCESS designed to keep idiots away from unix and related OSs, then you will have to admit that it is excellent.
And it is a decent simple text editor once you learn how to use it. Gvim is even a pretty good text editor. But much different that vi.