In the late '70s at Berkeley I was taking a programming class. I don't recall the exact class, but I remember that to do the assignments you had to log into video terminals in Cory Hall. The programming concepts were not difficult, but I simply could not get that editor to do what I wanted. It was only years later when I learned (and learned to love) vi that I realized that it was the same editor that had caused me such aggravation in college!

what a full circle moment. SO what did you use when vi did now work? what was the alternative

I basically flunked out of that class -- twice. My roommate at Cloyne was a brilliant EE major, but I was too embarrassed to ask him for help.

lol its cool. I believe now you might consider yourself a vim chad. you migrated to neovim yet?

No, I'm happy with vim -- or more precisely, Macvim. I'm somewhat tempted to make the jump to ad, if anything, but I'm afraid the learning curve would be pretty steep for this old dog. It's also in its very early development. But I love what he's trying to do.

https://github.com/sminez/ad

heard about this. will try it out when I learn rust so that I feel in sync. You have tried out emacs already

I don't like the multiple keystroke commands that emacs uses.

I thought of trying it out. Maybe in the next blog post I will try out all the predecessors of vim