Just curious what people use. I’ve got nearly 10 years of muscle memory typing vim (back when the default vi required “hjkl” navigation).
To open the editor, do you type vi or vim?
- vi
- vim
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Vim, but only due to all the .vimrc and plugin changes I’ve made over time.
I work on a few systems where vi is the only option due to storage concerns, but those tend to be brief interactions.
This poll came from @AnotherDev posting in the battlestation thread.
All our default images at work dont have vim installed, and I get a command not found at least a dozen times a day by fruitlessly trying to execute vim. Literally every person on my team thought i was crazy for suggesting that vim be installed, so 8-against-1 means I deal with my command not found errors.
Just seeing if it was just me.
At first I aliased vi to vim.
Then I aliased it to ml.
Its shorter and I can enter m + l + enter really fast with just one hand in a quick movement.
That’s funny, ml in my aliases is something else lol.
Pretty smart, though.
I am a nano pleb. I need to mess with the other text editors. Although I do like nano.
I’m curious, what plugins are you using? I recognise NerdTree, which I’ve used. What others do you use? I’m looking for anything to make my experience while using Vim just that much more enjoyable
I use nano, vim is unintuitive.
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From ~/.vimrc:
Vundle
vim-fugitive
nord-vim
nerdtree
vim-go
vim-airline
vim-surround
vim-airline-themes
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Just a friendly reminder to others. @AnotherDev is asking about vi / vim.
If you like nano or something else though, we get it.
Everyone has their preferences.
This thread is about vi / vim usage though.
Please respect the topic. 
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I’m looking for anything to make my experience while using Vim just that much more enjoyable
I find Vim quite intuitive. It has a learning curve, but once I got used to it, it’s easier to use. I still want to train myself to use HJKL for navigation rather than arrow keys, but it’s nice that I get that choice. If I’m only doing very quick edits, I’ll use nano, but I’m more inclined to use Vim more often than not if I want to make use of the syntax highlighting.
check out micro. it’s got more functionality than nano and it’s more intuitive than vim, it also has it’s documentation built in and easy to access
I have 30+ years of using vi & hjkl, so am not going to even try stop now.
There are some vim features I use occassionally, but in general I stick to base vi subset which works on almost every box out of the box except for neutered versions like busybox, where IIRC some of the search and replace shortcomings bite me.
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Sorry, I was not trying to derail with my reply. I do need to look at both vi and vim and see if there are benefits to using those, as compared to other options.
vi, because time is money 
edit:
as above, not 30 years of experience, more like 24, but yes, have formerly been on solaris 2.x, AIX, SCO, etc. so vi is the lowest common denominator.
What are your plugins? I’ve been needing to rice things up.
anyone use vigor?
(younger peeps/kids … google it).
I’ve executed both a few times, but I’m still trying to get out of them both. (heh)
I seem to remember Wendell mentioning in a video that there is a tutorial for one of them, but I’ve never gotten around to looking for it.