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by Datenstrom 2693 days ago
Whenever I end up on another computer without my environment setup and end up in nano because it is the default, it always takes me a while. There is the cheat sheet at the bottom but as soon as the text appears I'll start manipulating it using vim keybindings and delete things and whatever else randomly. I always assume my fingers were not on the homerow correctly or something first. It is very disorienting.

So I imagine it is far worse for someone who ends up in Vim the same way.

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My first command in any new install is the equivalent of:

dpkg --purge nano

31 years of exiting vi FTW.

This happens to me even in graphical text editors, my text ends up riddled with ':w's I have to go back through and remove later.
Same for me :)
This usually happens to me on a fresh install the first time I run "crontab -e" or a git commit.