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Yup, love it.

Not as arcane as vim, great for small edits without the oh-crap-what-have-I-pressed-force-quit-start-over phenomenon that I get in vi. 'Serious' editing is done in gedit...

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vi makes me angry. This was obvious when I installed Debian on a 1999-era iMac and had to edit (probably) x11 conf and had to use vi with JKL; instead of the arrow keys. It made me want to stab something.

nano makes me happy.

> had to use vi with JKL; instead of the arrow keys. It made me want to stab something.

I can see how this would be frustrating, given that the vi movement keys are in fact HJKL

That's probably what they were. I was trying to remember exactly, since that was over 6 years ago, and I've never had to use vi like that before or since.

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