{"id":2992,"date":"2009-12-08T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:55:06","slug":"vi-i-just-gotta-love-it-even-though-i-hate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2992","title":{"rendered":"vi &#8211; I just gotta love it even though I hate it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I get stuck with a Linux or Unix environment with no <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphical_user_interface\">GUI <\/a>available. Whatever the intention is, it does not take more than 2 minutes before I have to at least edit a single line in a file, leaving me with the only option to use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vi\">vi<\/a>. Like for instance now. Been using vi quite a lot the last week, learning geek-commands such as ZZ, y, p, i, I and A. Off course I knew :q! in advance. Just gotta love the tool I love to hate when using such commands, leave work for a week and try to remember them&#8230;impossible, you then need the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eec.com\/business\/vi.html\">Cheat Sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomer.com\/vi\/vi.html\">VI Lovers page<\/a><\/p>\n[video:youtube:XSXoap2h3Mw]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I get stuck with a Linux or Unix environment with no GUI available. Whatever the intention is, it does not take more than 2 minutes before I have to at least edit a single line in a file, leaving me with the only option to use vi. Like for instance now. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14609,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}