On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka <[email protected]> wrote: > Why can't you use nano like other people who don't understand vi or vim? >
Generally what happens is there are programs which expect the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variable to contain a program. Sometimes the default is vi or vim when it would probably make more sense to have it be something like nano. Git is the main program that comes to mind. > On Thu, 25 May 2017, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> I hate to beat a dead horse, but this analysis of the question is >> rather interesting: >> >> https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/. >> >> It seems like it supports the idea that despite the question's >> popularity, most people can figure out how to exit the editor and it >> is only certain demographics that have problems with the editor. >> However, they still find the answer. >> >> A far more interesting but harder to find statistic is how many people >> resort to closing the terminal emulator or killing the vim process >> from another virtual terminal. I have heard of this happening but the >> number is likely vanishingly small. >> >> > > -- > Hisashi T Fujinaka - [email protected] > BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
