On Thu, Dec 27, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Fw: Announcement : http://vim.begin-site.org/ - The Vim Beginners' Site": > I would like to announce that today I started working on > http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Beginners??? Site, which is a static site
I love vi - I've been using it for more than a quarter of a century, and can probably edit with it in my sleep ;-) But I have to ask a sacrilegious question: Is it a good idea to teach vi to beginners? Specifically, when I want to teach my 6 year old daughter an editor (not a word processor - she already plays with OpenOffice on her Linux computer), will it make any sense to for me to teach her vi? When I learned "vi", its modal interface (separate insert and command modes) and curses-based display were so much better than its predecessor "ed", that I couldn't not love it. But today, beginners would find it more intuitive to use editors which emphasise mouse gestures and menus, and in rare occasion, control sequences. Don't get me wrong - vi (and specifically, vim) is still my favorite editor. I just wonder how I can justify passing on my love for vim to the next generation of beginners. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Dec 27 2012, 14 Tevet 5773 [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If the universe is expanding, why can't I http://nadav.harel.org.il |find a parking space? _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
