renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1816
arrow-up1816imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square143fedilink
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·12 hours agovi 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-up6·12 hours agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 hours agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
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.