{"id":12866,"date":"2014-03-23T00:51:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T05:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12866"},"modified":"2014-03-23T00:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T05:51:29","slug":"why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12866","title":{"rendered":"Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yes, there are definite reasons why the vi\/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there. And you don&#8217;t need to be a Unix whiz to use it, either: vim is available for free for almost any platform out there, and there are plug-ins to get the functionality inside all major IDEs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viemu.com\/a-why-vi-vim.html\">Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to research vi\/vim editing some more, here are some useful references:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ngedit.com\/2005\/06\/03\/the-vi-input-model\/\">Learn why I got started<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viemu.com\/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html\">Use my graphical cheat sheet and tutorial to learn vi\/vim editing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomer.com\/vi\/vi.html\">The awesome &#8220;vi lovers&#8221; home page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jmcpherson.org\/editing.html\">Learn Jonathan McPherson&#8217;s hints for effective editing with vim<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\">Go to vim&#8217;s homepage for anything you want<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are definite reasons why the vi\/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there. And you don&#8217;t need to be a Unix whiz to use it, either: vim is available for free for almost any platform &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[87,573],"class_list":["post-12866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-tools","tag-vi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}