Op, what do you find more offputting: emacs or neovim?
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Bro you forgot the 'm' at the end of vi
And the i, c, r, and o. In fact keep the vi.
We don't want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!
On the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed
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Mike Tyson?
Ah, nice one! Didn't realize it could even be done.
It isn't as dumb as it sounds, honestly! I used to use DBeaver and it is a fantastic project, but I really wanted Vim keybinds to construct my queries as they can sometimes be quite large. There used to be a plugin that added the functionality but it stopped working on my machine. This Vim plugin is essentially a wrapper for the CLI SQL client (psql in my case), so using it actually kind of makes sense, I think.
The biggest issue I faced was exporting the results, but I just created a function in my ~/.vimrc that copies all the text of the results to a new tab and formats it however I want. CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, Markdown, whatever I need is all there and predefined. All I have to do is call :ExportToMarkdown and off I go.
What makes 6 so popular?
Because vii viii ix
LXIX my balls! Haha got'em.
Believe it or not, this is the second time I got to make that joke within an hour.
* laughs in Latin *
Vi hasnβt been updated since 2005. Arenβt everyone just using vim or neovim?
Not to imply that Vi is perfect, but Vi is perfect. What do you need an update for? /s
I use whatever the machine gives me when I type vi, I assume it's usually vim
Huh, vi for me has always been actual vi, not vim. Didn't know some systems symlink vi to vim.
vim has a limited "vi-mode" that it uses if you call it as vi. so it could still be vim.
Ohh that makes more sense. Yeah perhaps, although come to think of it I still need to install vim from the package manager even if vi works fresh out of the box so maybe not?
i think there's also a vim-mini that gets installed by default in some debian-based distros.
A long time ago, someone posted advocating symlinking vi to emacs. Evil, but entertaining.
Vim is the preferred experience, so it's for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you're almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.
Emacs
(ducks)
Emacs is what the unified linux desktop should be
I use vi from an Emacs Shell, which was spawned from an Emacs GUI.
bro tryin' to summon a demon... /s
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Editing excel spreadsheet? VI
Excel files (.xlsx) is just an archive of some XML files and whatnot, so sure you could edit them in vim.
Though I'd rather edit them in CSV format
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in highschool my physics teacher used vim to write stuff, like most times when checking if everyone was in class he'd just open vim and type people's name in there
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