• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    25 days ago

    I don’t remember what program it was but I once went to configure something, and the command to “open settings” essentially just opened a text file in vim.

    Being a nano scrub that took me a second to get out of.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      25 days ago

      Sometimes, programs that need to start up an editor will honour the $EDITOR environment variable, which should contain the name of, or full path to, a user’s preferred editor.

      It’s not set by default though, and a lot of things will naturally default to vi or even ed. Something to be set in a .profile, .bashrc or similar.

      $VISUAL is another variable that is used for similar purposes.

      The resemblance to certain two letter commands is not entirely a coincidence.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    25 days ago

    I’ll tell you what though: one you get used to it, you really get used to it.

    I typed :q to try and close a tab the other day.

    Edit: a tab not in vim, of course