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GNU nano doesn't delete words upon Ctrl+Backspace, only Ctrl+Delete
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stares in signature look of vim superiority
waits 3 minutes to read this comment condescendingly in emacs with some really sweet customizations
wants to reply to comment but doesnt remember the custom key combo
shakes head about this blatant lack of basic competency:wq!
Arrives late bimut) but smirks..
:x
C-x C-r m
I cannot stand the yuhjklbn or whatever navigation! How do you even memorize that? It's so counterintuitive...
My arrow keys work perfectly fine in vim.
Vi is not vim.
How can you say you prefer ^W ^T text to search enter text to replace it with enter
to: :s/text to search/text to replace/gcenter
Dude, I tried gvim and I just cannot make heads or tails of its control scheme. It's Geany for me; your brain is bigger than mine.
Eh. vi was the original editor. I've been around computers since the early 1980s, so it's just what I'm used to.
When vim came out in 91 that was a major upgrade, and I already had the muscle memory for vi.
My home computer from 1983 until 1991 was a C64. But I was dialing into unix gopher servers from about 1985.
BBSs were more fun, but gopher helped me write term papers for AP/Honors Physics II in high school....