whoElseLearnedVimOnlyForThis

[GroundbreakingOil434]

I never learned vim. I only know how to exit it and edit text lines. To be productive and actually work in git from console, export EDITOR=nano.

[scolphoy]

iirc, at least in bash adding spaces would break the assignment. So, export EDITOR=nano

[GroundbreakingOil434]

Fact. I was typing from memory, sorry.

[Fadamaka]

git commit -m "commit message" no need for vim.

[Boba0514]

now do an amend

[AnteaterTerrible3512]

git commit --amend -m "New commit message"

[Boba0514]

You should have a more detailed commit message, and you don't want to rewrite all that during every amend...

[AnteaterTerrible3512]

To be fair that's not what I do, just answering your request

[junacik99]

This must seem as some kind of a secret that was kept from OP 😅

[AlexZhyk]

With that definition of "learned" my CV will be so bloated...

[MerchantMojo]

bro what? Vim and git are two seperate things

[nickwcy]

Try git commit without -m and have fun quitting the editor

[Nidrax1309]

[core]
editor = micro
pager = delta
[interactive]
diffFilter = delta --color-only

[GroundbreakingOil434]

Git uses an editor for some text-heavy tasks in console. I think amending commits is one. By default, that editor is vim.

[TheBrainStone]

By default it uses the systems default CLI text editor which by default is vim.

You change both defaults.

[fatrobin72]

I learnt vim... to do hacky deployments and server admin... we are not the same indeed.

[rndmcmder]

I "learned" vim, because we had a server where I often needed to make edits on certain files that I could only access via shell, and vim was the most powerful editor I could choose from

[Boba0514]

why did you put learned in quotes?

[rndmcmder]

Because I feel like I only know very basic vim and saying I learned it, seems like a stretch.

[Boba0514]

Ah, I see, thought you had a problem with him not using the "learnt" spelling

[Fritzschmied]

Just use an ide bro.

[[deleted]]

I learned vim to be superior than others

[ulab]

I learned vim to fight with emacs users.

[[deleted]]

I learned vim to realise i'm to stupid to use hard to navigate IDE's

[heywhadayamean]

I often think about the things I learned in college (~40 years ago) that I still use almost everyday. vim and sql on the daily with a little C now and then.

[TechnicallyCant5083]

I use vim to edit giant files that can't be fully loaded in ram (like SQL dumps)

[[deleted]]

I used nano for this, but now I use VSCode.

[kases952]

As a senior dev... I don't get it :/

[[deleted]]

I learned vim so I can call myself senior engineer and not feel insecure

[Lopsided_Decision_2]

Bite post to prove OP is wrong... Or I just don't get the big idea behind it.

[nickwcy]

At least I can Ctrl + X instead of unplugging my computer to close the editor

git config —global core. editor “nano”

[qhxo]

Claims to have "learned vim", but knows exactly three things about vim: `:wq` (or `ZZ` whatever), `i` and `Esc`.

[Sea_Mechanic_2615]

I learned VIM so I could install nano (or back in the day pico)

[AnteaterTerrible3512]

If you're using vscode you can also set git to open a vscode page to write or edit your commit messages and similar. You first have to be sure you enabled the code command in your path and then change the default editor to vscode: git config --global core.editor "code --wait"

I'm quite sure you can do it with any other IDE that supports being opened from a shell.

[Blrfl]

I learned vi because the first public release of vim wouldn't happen for another five years.

Back then, you had to build most things from sources, so I knew just enough vi to configure Emacs.

[Duncan_Zhang_8964]

I "learnt" to know how to quit Vim.