Vi vs Emacs: Discuss
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That's a proper
emacs
beard.
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Except Solaris 10 (and probably others) - where the default editor is
ed
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If it's really your first time using vim, you should follow the advice given on the startup screen and type :help.
Exactly. You have to read at least a 10 minute tutorial before you can use vim. This is not an intrinsically bad thing (after all, you have to spend a lot more to learn how to write C, Java or HTML) but it does mean that you have to make it a conscious decision ("I'm going to learn vim today because it will be helpful in the future") rather than it being like editing a file in notepad++/nano/gedit/kate.
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rm -r /*
sudo rm -rf /
is better, but needs your password to give you a secure terminal.
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sudo -v; nohup sudo rm -rf / &> /dev/null
even better, because you can then disconnect the terminal and walk away while the system deletes itself.
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sudo -v; nohup sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / &> /dev/null
Otherwise those sissy gnu systems will refuse to take action.
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true that....
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/* makes the terminal auto expand and gets rid of any pesky "you don't really want to delete everything, that would be silly" errors
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But it wouldn't delete files in the root of the filesystem that start with
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You could hit Ctrl + C after a few seconds and likelihood is you've already deleted enough that you've killed it anyway.
See:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/worst-line-of-bash-ever/2697/16?u=loopback0
Hit Ctrl + C after 2/3 seconds. Unsurprisingly it didn't survive a reboot.I also enjoyed how it told me to use
--no-preserve-root
then let me use a different way to override it.
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like the fact you're willingly using vim a second time?
Could be worse. You could be watching Windows Updates doing whatever it does.
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FLAMEWAR_NOT_FOUND
The worst thing about this flame war is that it wasn't a poll.
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Are polls even working again?
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I thought they were.
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Would seem so.
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Exactly. You have to read at least a 10 minute tutorial before you can use vim. This is not an intrinsically bad thing (after all, you have to spend a lot more to learn how to write C, Java or HTML) but it does mean that you have to make it a conscious decision ("I'm going to learn vim today because it will be helpful in the future") rather than it being like editing a file in notepad++/nano/gedit/kate.
vim as an IDE is very Linux-y in this way:
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eeeh.... i wish i could deny it.... but the oatmeal has a point..... i don't think he is correct, but he does raise a valid point....
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eeeh.... i wish i could deny it.... but the oatmeal has a point..... i don't think he is correct, but he does raise a valid point....
That's more for the average computer user, not the average WTDWTF user. So it's not exactly the same comparison, but it's similar.
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i don't think he is correct, but he does raise a valid point
Yeah, he's wrong. His step 1 should be "call up the beard who installed it for you", and then there's no need for a step 2.
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Sublime Text or Brackets for web development, whatever IDE is available for C++, and...well, either Sublime or Brackets for Java, too. Eclipse is just...shudder.
If forced to choose between vi and emacs on an old *nix box, then vi--but I'd rather have pico.