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...
