Doesn't everybody know that 'G' takes you to the bottom of the file and
'gg' to the top ;)
I used to hate Vim and considered the learning curve too steep. First
thing I would do when I spun up a Linux VM was install nano. Then I bit
the bullet and invested the time to learn how to use it.
Now it's my favorite text editor. I use it all the time on z/OS as my
employer has ported it as part of the z/OS Open Source tools product.
Once you have an intermediate level of proficiency you
can do amazing things WRT navigation, searching/replacing, editing all
with a ridiculously small amount of keystrokes. To beautify source code
indentation simply type 'gg=G'.
If you check out the neovim [1] fork contributors. They're all young
guys! These are web devs, devops, game developers all using a shell
based TUI editor and not a fancy GUI. 41K stars is just amazing!
To general consensus is that using a mouse is a productivity killer. How
times change! Nobody would consider writing an ISPF WSA these days.
Don't fight it, feel it. Watch a few YouTube tutorial videos and you'll
be a convert in no time.
[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim
On 27/01/2021 1:57 pm, Tom Brennan wrote:
On 1/26/2021 7:42 PM, David Crayford wrote:
I know the old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks but why not
just learn native Linux tools?
Because somebody decided that "end save" would be "<esc>:wq" which of
course makes perfect sense :)
Actually, I barely know enough of the vi editor to get by, and have to
google every time even for simple things like how to move to the
bottom of a file. But other mainframe folks I work with are far worse
than me.
Still, I agree with you. Just learn what everybody else has already
found to work best in that environment.
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