On: GNU nano 3.0 released

[epicide]

Recently made this argument to someone. They open vi/m just to immediately jump into insert mode and never leave.

I love using vim and would encourage anyone to go through vimtutor and start learning it, but if you're just not interested, using nano can save you a lot of headache.

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I second vimtutor for the interested. This Vim help page is indispensible to those who aren't:

    :help index

Every Vim shortcut is there and organized.