Comment by grebc
7 hours ago
Interesting the history is varied for such a simple tool.
I am but a lowly mouse/GUI user so rarely have to dwell in a shell, but I learnt the basics of vi in my 1st year of university and never forgotten. Gotten me out of many a pickle being able to reliably edit a file quickly.
Simple tool? Visual text editor is probably the most complicated piece of software in coreutils.
there's a visual editor in coreutils? i didn't realize
oh i guess there's GNU Readline, but that's not in coreutils i think
Neovim supports the mouse by the way.
I'm a GUI user too but using helix-mode (like vim-mode but IMO more intuitive) in my GUI editor, zed, gives me the benefits of both.
...and presumably quit vi once you're done!
I have typed either :wq or ZZ into so many files in VS Code... :-)