On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 06:25:47PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Yikes. I had no idea what either of these are doing and had to > try them out. vi(1) contains so much bloat that is never really > needed and doesn't belong in a text editor at all.
No, all of this does belong in a text editor. I use vi/vim with escapes *all the time*. writing some text, having to do some computation, type 42+15, select it !bc, and that's it, instant computations. seamless integration between shell and text editors is something that's in both major editors on Unix (vi family and emacs family). If you're not using that, you are in the minority compared to power users.
