I used vi

quarky

To successfully change the contents of a file over multiple lines, save it, and quit. Jesus Christ, I feel like I deserve a medal!

relic245

Was it actual Vi? 
If so then yes you do! 

Years ago when I was a developer I used Vim for years. Wrote loads of my own functions etc. Took a long time to really get to grips with it but a seriously powerful editor. 

Shrews

Never knew it could do that, I've been cleaning the bog with it for years

quarky

relic245 said:

Was it actual Vi? 
If so then yes you do! 

Years ago when I was a developer I used Vim for years. Wrote loads of my own functions etc. Took a long time to really get to grips with it but a seriously powerful editor. 

I think so. I had to use "hjkl" for navigating, "i" and "a" for entering text, "D" for deleting the rest of the line.. 

ICBM

I thought this was going to be about a blue pill.

Phil_aka_Pip

vi was originally designed for when you didn't have a mouse or cursor control keys. Powerful, but you never knew when you were in control mode or in insert mode. I still use it in circumstances when gedit is inappropriate

Bridgehouse

Think yourself lucky - I spent the whole of my time at university using elm as an email client. Gaaaaaaaaah!

wolsnah

I still use vi. It's the easiest lowest common denominator editor on Unix, doesn't need a gui and easily added to windows. I'm no wizard but I'm comfortable using it. It is fun watching others use it for the first time and reminding myself of the start of the journey. 

ToneControl

wolsnah said:

I still use vi. It's the easiest lowest common denominator editor on Unix, doesn't need a gui and easily added to windows. I'm no wizard but I'm comfortable using it. It is fun watching others use it for the first time and reminding myself of the start of the journey. 

masochism

viz

I use vi whenever we play Since you been Gone. 

usedtobe

What??

Ossyrocks

In 1996, I wrote the entire UMIST Maths dept website in vi.

I’m better now.

Rob

mart

quarky said:

To successfully change the contents of a file over multiple lines, save it, and quit. Jesus Christ, I feel like I deserve a medal!

You actually managed to quit vi? That always seemed to be the hardest thing kinda like you could check out, but you could never leave.

Somebody once told me that “vi” stood for “visual interface”. I didn’t stop laughing for about 3 weeks.

Myranda

I had to use it this term...our "Enterprise Server Management" course required editing of files in our CentOS 7 VMs through SSH or he ghastly vSphere Remote Console  (copy/paste is disabled by default, and we don't have admin power in vSphere)... so the only editor available was vi...

Well either that or
echo "text" > file
echo "text" >> file
echo "text" >> file
echo "text" >> file

but that's not much better than vi

Phil_aka_Pip

@Myranda ; you'd have been better off with

cat > file

all the text you like

<control-D>

wibble

I use vi all the time on servers and on my mac for config files. The scrubs on my team use nano.

You can tell people's experience by their level of habitual ESC key mashing!

Jalapeno

Had to use vi for a long time.

EMACS, now there is an editor !

Today for a quick in & out job I use nano

Nitefly

Got to love an editor where you press "l" to move right... 

guitartango

God I hate using it, copy and paste a line.. Still sorts the men from the power shell boys, and I use that as well

mcsdan

Been using it for over 25 years! Great little editor once you undertstand it. Do have a life to live and beer to drink. Vi just gets on with it!

wolsnah

You should try using ed, now there's an evilly hard non-intuitive editor.