I think you're cool for using vi I just couldn't make it to the desert meetup. I'm an antisocial loser
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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I couldn't make it because I couldn't figire out how to exit my CLI editor.
Why is fish so small? Is it a different fish?
Thanks for making VIM content
it's the mini-fish and mini-girl!
Oh I missed the mini prefix. We will evolve into micro-fish and micro-girl next
Techno-mage nano
Less features. Just like vi
We all (the cool folks) know that ED IS THE STANDARD EDITOR.
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And where is neovim vs vim on here?
you can substitute vi and vim with anything you want!
Where my ed users at?
nobody is here
?
Nano is all anyone should ever need.
And no one will call me a pervert for using emacs? O.o
PERVERT!!!
I can, if you want?
Thanks, I'm good. I can't even write LISP.
Most of us are polite enough not to call you that publicly, but we're all thinking it really, really loudly.
vim is definitely cooler than neovim.
I like nano because it lists the keyboard commands on the screen where I can see them.
But there's only like five
there are 10
I like nano because I don't have to learn shit to use it.
I dislike it because you can't do shit.
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|| ||What is the difference anyway between vi and vim?
These days the vi command on your machine is almost definitely actually vim just running in a mode with limited features to emulate vi.
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No visual mode (selections), you also can't immediately see the results of your changes - if you use the c$ command, for example, the rest of the line won't disappear.
yeah I did not feel they are very different and most of what I do in vim is like I use vi. I mean granted I do usually use vim.
Fish is there so there's 1
Yeah!
True that!