renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1879arrow-down153
arrow-up1826arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square165fedilink
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·22 hours agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·22 hours agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·21 hours agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-215 hours agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
:q!