I admit I've been using Debian and Ubuntu for roughly a year on servers and a few months on desktop, but I've always hated vi and vim. Especially, since it's the default on centos 6.stevepusser wrote:GNU/Linux is not a free and open source version of Windows; it was never meant to be that. Maybe giving this a read would clear things up.
I had a laugh when that link said it's not unheard of noobs rebooting computers to exit out of vim, hahaha. I've did the same with a centos 6 VM 2 weeks ago. But I've finally managed to search around, then there you go. I for insert, :wq and :q! for saving and exiting.
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In the Linux world, however, this is not so much the case: Projects frequently start out as one man's toy. He does everything himself, and therefore the interface has no need of any kind of "user friendly" features: The user knows everything there is to know about the software, he doesn't need help. Vi is a good example of software deliberately created for a user who already knows how it works: It's not unheard of for new users to reboot their computers because they couldn't figure out how else to get out of vi.