On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 03:42:47PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 06:25:47PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Yikes. I had no idea what either of these are doing and had to
> > try them out. vi(1) contains so much bloat that is never really
> > needed and doesn't belong in a text editor at all.
>
> No, all of this does belong in a text editor.
>
> I use vi/vim with escapes *all the time*.
>
> writing some text, having to do some computation,
>
> type 42+15, select it !bc, and that's it, instant computations.
>
>
> seamless integration between shell and text editors is something that's
> in both major editors on Unix (vi family and emacs family).
>
> If you're not using that, you are in the minority compared to power users.
Heck, piping to sort, or wc + undo are two of the most common used
commands. Under vi, !}fmt is also a favorite, though vim does have
better integrated commands...
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