renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 4 MonatenMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1973arrow-down159
arrow-up1914arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 4 Monatenmessage-square186fedilink
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·vor 4 Monatenvi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·vor 4 MonatenWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·vor 4 MonatenUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-2vor 4 Monatened is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·vor 4 MonatenReally? 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 :)
vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
edwas so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
viand gettingvimis just a pleasant surprise :):q!