Programmer Humor

This is how we vim😏

Are you sure? It looks like this is going "Hey, I can't get the front door open to the house, so I called the cops and told them I was being held hostage so they would break down the door with a battering ram."

How long is it before CoPilot can't exit vim and just deletes vim as the solution?

That explains the many vim enthusiasts that don't want any other editor. They simply can't exit the vim instance they once accidentally opened...

You just reboot. Right?

What if my PC boots straight into Vim? It's not like I need anything else, can do everything in Vim

Isn't it? I can't decide whether I believe this is an easter egg

What a weird way to spell nano

Why doesn't it just edit files like it normally does?

Haha. Yes.

But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.

Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.

When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful... but no way to leave them. Not even man man won't tell you how to exit a man page!

So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed -- and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-

I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don't know what you don't know, and if you can't ask... sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, ... The Internet is (was) a blessing.

If it’s a read only file it won’t work, but it might be in insert mode and can’t escape.

It should have tried :q!

The interface is modal editing, which, yes, takes some getting used to. The payoff is that you get a kind of programming language for text editing. Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions.

Have you ever played a video game, be it with kbd+mouse or gamepad, and realize you’re doing a bunch of stuff without actually consciously thinking about what buttons you’re pressing? That’s what working in editors like Vim or (my fav) Helix feels like.

since interface has been designed to be as unfriendly as possible

No, it hasn't.

It (well, vi, which vim is a clone of) has been designed to be a possible interface on a keyboard that doesn't have arrow keys or other modifier keys than shift. There aren't that many ways to program a visual text editor when those are your constraints.

That it's more productive once you know it is a side-effect.

Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that's worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it's a lot easier than many people think.

It’s a specialist tool. You can say the same thing about any specialist tool. Why should CNC machine tools exist if they’re so hard to use and take a lot of training and are dangerous in the hands of untrained people?

fluency. languages are hard to learn but when you know them you communicate better. same as touch-typing, or mobas.