[clug] Text editor

Bryan Kilgallin bryan at netspeed.com.au
Sat Oct 25 07:00:06 MDT 2014


I mean, why use the likes of vi/Vim, instead of say Gedit or Libre 
Office Writer?

On 25/10/14 23:50, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> How else would you edit text without a text-based editor? :s
>
> And what does it being the 21st Century have to do with it?
>
> On 25 October 2014 23:37, Bryan Kilgallin <bryan at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
>> I have been learning Vim via vimtutor. As recommended by Rute.
>>
>> Why in the 21st century, use a text-based editor? This reminds me of using
>> CP/M decades ago on a minicomputer. Is it an exercise in industrial
>> archaeology, like learning to make cast-iron railway lines?
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