My wife was unimpressed by Vim

Maybe she just wasn't impressed by your noob skills and is having doubts herself?

This relationship can be saved as long as the guy's wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she's one of those "Notepad is all I need" types, there is hope this can be worked through.

"nothing fancy" that's the issue, just some jumping won't impress her; you gotta do the real crazy shit. Friggin "wife not impressed by my cooking? I make a hard boiled egg and she isn't impressed"

"See if you just learn these 87 simple keyboard shortcuts, you won't need to simply drag with the mouse and cut and paste at all!"

> my wife

> vim user

fake

As someone who's been a software developer for over a decade and in IT even longer, I still don't use vi/vim for anything other than when crontabs have it set as the editor.

ive heard women are into emacs these days

I'm sorry but your wife won't be impressed by basic vim motions. You need to learn some more advanced motions to get her wet.

I refuse to see how vim and emacs is worth learning. I only use it because that's the only option when editing server files. Beyond this, I couldn't imagine coding in these environments from scratch.

Stop showing off VIM to your wife would be a good start. I mean, I would do the same if she tried to show off her make tutorials to me.

Maybe she's into VSCode guys. So try VSCode with vim plugin.

Divorce.

Skill issue

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Realising that your partner doesn't care about you after 10+ years can indeed be hard.

Hey at least you showed her your vim and not your nano or micro

Guy shoulda tried emacs instead, wife is probably an elitist

Emacs can do that obviously. And everything else.

You have to adopt Emacs and show her that she can even play Tetris on it.

Have you tried tiny macros with q and @? Syntax highlighting? Z-folds? Or turn vi into a hex editor with :%!xxd ?

If that doesn't work, try :divorce

That's because her bull uses Emacs.

Would've loved to see which community they posted to. RelationshipAdvice?

Show her you know how to exit vim and she'll instantly be naked and on the bed

sit your wife down in front of vim, and make her use it.

It'll make more sense immediately.

If not, divorce.

Deep down, every Vim user just wants one person to tell them that the countless hours they spent leaning to use it weren't a total waste of time.

You might've moved around too quickly. Stick to motion in the home row to start - hjkl. There are several ways to enter insert mode but DO NOT attempt it before she's familiar with the basic motions.

Maybe your wife is either VSCode or Atom gang

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My wife's impressed though, may be a little...

But she's also a programmer.

Have you tried rebooting her?

Have you considered divorce?

I'm sorry, you need to :s/replace/her/ as soon as possible.

Your wife is probably a secret Kakoune wizard and recognizes that your skills are decadent.

DIVORCE

immediate divorce /s

vi is more impressive when you've used ed for a few years. Nowadays, eh.

:q!

She's your ex-wife now, right?

make several limes with the number 0
visual mode mark them and do g ctrl a

gets 'em every time!

Switch to emacs

:q!

There is simply no plugin to replace that functionality. Emacs users would tell you otherwise, but you have to remember that it's all about the curves for those Lisp folks. I think this is probably a new software worth learning even if it lacks interoperability with some of your existing toolkit.

if your wife wasn't vi-impressed, maybe she already is vi-improved ;-)