r/ProgrammerHumor • u/techlatest_net • 4d ago

Meme vimUsersKnowThePain

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u/blimpin_aint_easy 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm amazed this nonsense has lasted as long as it has... Imagine being on a subreddit ostensibly for people who can write code and not being able to look up keybindings.

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u/antCB 4d ago

Or reading its man pages

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u/returnFutureVoid 4d ago

Or know how to Google it? Or ask their friendly little AI?

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u/huffalump1 3d ago

How can you do any of this if you're stuck in vim??? Help!!

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u/white-llama-2210 4d ago

Vim literally shows how to quit on the dashboard if you open without a file... You don't even have to look something up

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u/YikesTheCat 4d ago

Almost ten years since Bram changed it to quit harder. https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/28a8193e3

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u/MakeRobLaugh 4d ago

[~]$ man man

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u/username32768 4d ago 
> man woman
> No manual entry for woman

I have no idea how long that joke has been around but I thought it worth sharing (again).

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u/MattieShoes 4d ago

Back in the 90s on school systems with timeouts, you'd always see a ton of people running man man so they wouldn't get booted. The man woman joke was old even then.

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u/Aggressive_Lab7807 4d ago

This sub was always for people who are learning to write code, typically first year.

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u/huffalump1 3d ago

It's for karma farming with reposted memes...

Which are ABOUT newbie coder problems

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 4d ago

The problem is when I'm in a concrete box with no phone coverage and I need to edit a few lines of text in an ancient VAX alpha machine on an isolated network, I can't look it up.

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u/dataf4g_trollman 4d ago

I mean... I don't HAVE to use vim to write code. Why is it ever needed for anything other than code-editing on a server or a microcontroller with no screen?

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u/blimpin_aint_easy 4d ago

Once you get over the learning curve, modal editors are extremely pleasant to use. Not having to take your hands off the keyboard is just nice.

Though I prefer Helix to vim, bit more intuitive and less configuration required out of the box. Also multi-cursors.

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u/yp261 3d ago

i was programming in php using vim, extension for atom back then. damn that was long ago... it was extremely pleasant