Vim

In the past, I have written about my contempt for Vim, but my attitude has changed, as of today. DrSmall helped me on the path to Vim after I mentioned that I had added syntax highlighting to Nano.

On my re-moving to Arch, I decided I should use more CLI-based applications. Since I had a misunderstanding with Vim (it’s quite intimidating…), I decided I’d use Nano. On discovery (afaik) that I could not make the pressing of the tab key print four spaces, and not a tabstop, I knew I needed to find another CLI editor or just stay with Geany. I have been wanting to try Vim for a while now, but everytime I (lazily, without reading the manual) tried to use it it seem to do something really odd and I gave up on it. Anyways, DrSmall recommended that I try Vimtutor.

After vimtutor taught me that Vim wasn’t as difficult as I’d imagined, I decided to try some things I normally do. Vim retained my 2 favorite Nano shortcuts,
Ctrl-K (cut a line) and Ctrl-U (paste a cut line), albeit in the forms of “dd” and “p”. Syntax highlighting worked from the get go, and my code looks cleaner in Vim’s font selection. I’ve done some work on Grubbot, and now I’m pretty sure Vim is the right editor for me

On a sort-of related subject, what is with WordPress’s new interface? The editor I’m typing this on right now is complete and utter crap. Why is the sidebar of selections bigger than the box I ues to type in the actual blog post??