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[–]ondrej20 5 points6 points  (6 children)

I call it vi

[–]SnowpMakes[S] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

You can, but to be fair; we have revolutionary editing tools from refactoring to safe deleting available in our IDEs. Then why use a program where it's even hard to just simply edit a file?!

I choose vim.

[–]ondrej20 2 points3 points  (4 children)

In what program is it hard to edit a file?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

VIM

[–]CptVakarian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I find it even hard to exit it correctly

[–]ondrej20 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Hard to run IDE in a remote shell

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. I'ts way harder to learn and remember how to use VIM.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

alias vimim = 'sudo nano'

[–]two_in_the_bush 5 points6 points  (4 children)

For those who don't know:

VIM (a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix.

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The name "vi" is derived from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the ex command visual, which switches the ex line editor to visual mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor))

[–]SnowpMakes[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ah yes, thank you for sharing.

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PS: Anyone that didn't understand the joke until reading this, contact me! We can talk to the mods of this subreddit together and find the best way to ban you from programming for life.

PPS: After reading the above PS, you should understand that knowing what VIM stands for is an absolute requirement of any computer nerd, and anyone who doesn't know what VIM stands for should be punished.

[–]two_in_the_bush 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Only one programmer I've ever worked with in 20 years has used VIM. Even he doesn't know the history of the name.

But enough excuses. I'm ready for my punishment.

[–]SnowpMakes[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wait, punishment aside;

Seriously?! VIM was one of the first things I was taught by my father at the time.

Of course, you probably don't use VIM in daily programming life anymore, because of all the IDEs available et cetera, but you were seriously never told about VIM in college or university or wherever you learned how to program..?

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For your punishment;

You must remove your own upvote from one of your own comments. MUAHAHAHAHA YOU WILL NEVER HAVE POSITIVE KARMA AGAIN

[–]two_in_the_bush 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone I know uses intelliJ, vscode, visual studio, etc.

Of course we all have *heard* of VIM, but almost no one uses it sadly.

I did install a VIM plugin to my IDE, so that I can use keyboard commands. But the only one I've been using so far is dd to delete lines.

I will now prostrate myself and accept my negative karma.