On 07/30/2013 01:09 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM, P. A. <palopezv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 20:05 +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: >>> On 30 July 2013 16:33, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia >>> <palopezv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> IMnsHO, teach this person to use the tools already available: both nano, >>>> diffutils and less are part of base. Teach person to use "diff -u" >> ... >> >>> The only diff tool comparable to vimdiff that comes into my mind is >>> emacs diff mode. >> You are correct, but both vimdiff and emacs diff mode are sophisticated >> crutches. > They're not "crutches", they offer an elegant presentation of the > differences between the files, and you can merge the changes > one-by-one without losing context. It only takes a few minutes to > learn, and you'll be happy you did. > >> You should learn the basic tools to be able to understand the >> sophisticated ones later and make good use of them. > That's absolutely untrue, there's no secret knowledge you'll gain from > torturing yourself with an awful tool. It's only useful for generating > patches, not merging files. I agree when I was starting out as a Jr. sys admin, I had only been use to using nano. My new boss kept giving me so much crap for using it and not vim that I finally broke down using it. I uninstalled nano and forced myself, within a day I was flying through the basics on vim. I think if the person can not play with it for a day or less and get the basics behind it especially vimdiff might not be the best person to trust when you are gone, but that is my personal opinion. Once I got use to vim I kept telling myself, why did I not start with it sooner.
