Have you ever heard of the Lindy effect? It basically postulates than the future life expectancy for technologies and ideas is proportional to their current age, and based on that, it is safe to say that it is not too late for anyone to learn vi, which is notorious for being a text editor with vertical learning curve 🙂 Below is a link to my introductory blogpost published on StarWind blog and intended for those who just starting with vi. I recently have an opportunity to start using it and I can confirm it is just about overcoming initial frustration and practice a little bit, and then you can even like it 🙂 and even if you don’t you’ll definitely enjoy the power of being able to make config file changes on any Linux box right away instead of helplessly struggling without missing friendlier text editor(s).
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