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Vim is hard to use. Would it be worth it to learn it?
I don’t find it difficult, but I’m mostly joking. If Nano works for you, stick with that. I’m sure your cat will learn to accept and love you regardless 😉
The only real benefit of vim IIRC is that it's always included in an installation. The other text editors may need to be separately downloaded/installed on new or unfamiliar systems.
Like the other user said, if nano works for you, keep it. If you ever are forced to use vim however, a cheatsheet like this one should make it doable. (And yes, hitting esc a couple times before entering any command is a common practice to make sure you exited a mode)
It's also faster/easier for people who know how to use it as you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard and can zoom around, people that don't know their way around Vim however find it more annoying to use.
But if you type the other command too fast after hitting Esc, it might be treated as Alt and do the wrong thing completely.
It’s not that hard after all, but requires some attention span at least initially
I’ve been trying to learn for years, apparently I failed to have what it takes to learn