lol ...... its a good time ..... (but not so much) No, its the same old story, i will be more than happy once i have a grasp on it, it just getting that far that is difficult.
lol, yeh was thinking more along the lines of when starting out with linux. simply, because it listed all the shortcuts.
No, you're right. That's why Ubuntu has essentially replaced vim with nano. However, vi is still the defacto editor on every *nix distro out there, and it's a lot more powerful than simpler editors like nano, pico or joe. For those reasons, there is merit in learning it, even though there's a curve.
I think I may need to hack Swansen's signature one more time to read "Times inadvertently confused people in threads: 9999999999999999999999999 times" Nano is the prefered cli text editor in Ubuntu, except for the Visudo command, which now opens Vim instead of nano. That's why I've been risking opening the sudoers file directly because Vim just puzzles me. I'll get around to learning it one day...
It's good that vi is the de facto instead of emacs, at least from my POV. Maybe emacs would've worked fine, but I remember it being harder to understand than vi.
emacs is like an operating system unto itself. Some developers love it, but I've never really allowed myself enough immersion to speak for it either way. That said, my initial impression of the learning curve was that's actually it's more of a learning precipice.
