[ale] [EXTERNAL] Time for this Grey Beard to stir up some stuff

[DJ-Pfulio]

Add to your ~/.bashrc
export EDITOR=/path/to/your/preferred/editor
Lots of tools will honor that variable.


On 5/26/21 5:09 PM, Byron Jeff via Ale wrote:
> The short answer is yes, it's hard.
> 
> Line editing has a completely different mindset than typical visual
> editors. It actually takes training to understand that keystrokes are
> commands and not content. There is a point where one needs to ask is it
> more important to understand the process of using vi/vim, or is it really
> more important to get the configuration done and to keep it moving.
> 
> Like you, I wouldn't use anything else. I'm typing this E-mail in vim. But
> for me with nearly 40 years of usage, it's second nature.
> 
> I teach my students nano. It cuts 3 weeks of intro to vim out of my course.
> nano works the way they expect an editor to operate and the commands are
> listed on the bottom of the screen. I know it's like riding a trike. But
> when it's more important to get somewhere than to learn to ride the hog,
> nano serves this purpose just fine.
> 
> BAJ
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:56:31PM -0400, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
>>    Good Afternoon my fellow Grey Beards,
>>    So I have noticed that more and more post teaching people to do stuff
>>    with config or anything on the CLI, are using nano.
>>    Why in Gods name would you teach them that. Is VI or VIM so hard. I
>>    gave up on Emacs ( My first editor by the way ) years ago, but if you
>>    worked on FreeBSD, you had vi. If you worked on Solaris, you had vi.
>>    Linux has vi.
>>    I have come to love VIM, I do most of my edits in vim. I enjoy color
>>    syntax in vim.
>>    I get the joke that exit is hard if you don't know how to do :q! or
>>    :wq, but Emacs was so much harder with crtl-x something, something.
>>    Anyway, every time I see nano, I want to scream, "You kids don't know
>>    anything. Get a real editor."
>>    People who don't know the magic of doing things like %norm $T.D, to
>>    delete everything after the period. Or the beauty of using sed to find
>>    and replace. Truly are missing out.
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