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

[Pete Hardie]

I tried emacs once - editing files at gatech via dialup, and to do
something I had to press Ctrl-S.  Terminal stopped scrolling and I spent 15
minutes trying to get things back; I finally just power-cycled the modem.
After that, I never looked back from vi (now vim)

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:57 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> 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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