B1ackwater
2021-01-05 06:12:57 UTC
How do you tell vim to change a special character?
Um ... let me give you some advice. Got to /usr/bin andfucking DELETE vim.
Alternatively, make a symlink and redirect vi/vim to nano.
Vim is DINOSAUR AGE. Get RID of it. Do NOT entertain it.
Should have been purged a DECADE+ ago. That goes for
a lot of other weird old text-related stuff you still find in
Linux. Forget latex ... use OpenOffice. Further, faster,
easier.
Yes, I understand retro-enthusiasists, there is a place
for you (hell, I still always load a forth interpreter and
fortran & cobol too). I still like Lazarus/Free-Pascal
a lot (best way to whip up an nice ok GUI program
REAL QUICK btw).
Laz/FP is hideously underrated IMHO. It is all-capable,
WYSIWYG, fully compiled. You can do in a day what
it takes a week/month to do in python/tk or GTK or QT
the hard way. "3rd-gen' systems like Delphi/Laz,
Revelation, Access, where you neatly, simply, build
GUI forms/interfaces were/are The Holy Grail. The
last decade+ offers NOTHING so straightforward
and to the point. Gee, let's write 10000 lines of
html/php/javascript/css one line at a time by hand ...
yea, what an "improvement" ..............
WAY back in the dinosaur era, I wrote an x86 editor in
ASSEMBLER, heavily leveraging the existing IBM/BIOS
routines, that was pretty much like nano and notepad.
This was vastly better than 'edlin' - common on the PCs
of the era. There is NO reason to put up with early 80s
el-crappo line editors unless you have some weird
masochistic fetish.
Oh yea, you do NOT have to edit /etc/sudoers with
'visudo' no matter the propaganda.... just be careful
with nano.