Easiest way to install VIM on TrueNAS Scale?

[viniciusferrao]

When exactly do these characters show up? They don't if I use the stock vi while logged in via SSH. If this happens to you while you are using the web UI shell - don't. It's broken. Use SSH.

When you are in INSERT mode and want to navigate on the textfile without hitting ESC.

That is what happens:

Code:

# Filesystem path to repositories
REPO_PATH="/mnt/repos0/repos"

# Min and max random delay time in seconds
MIN_DELAY=30
MAX_DELAY=600
B                                    <=== CURSOR STAYS HERE; IT WILL ADD THE CHARACTERS AND PUSH DOWN.
C
A
D
B
C
A
D
B
A

# Define common rsync options
RSYNC_OPTIONS="-aSH --delete --delete-delay --delay-updates"

syncRepositories() {
  # AlmaLinux
  rsync ${RSYNC_OPTIONS} -f 'R .~tmp~' rsync://rsync.repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/ ${REPO_PATH}/almalinux/ &

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Er ... of course not? You cannot use the cursor keys in insert mode ... that's why it's called a modal editor since 1976.

 

[viniciusferrao]

Er ... of course not? You cannot use the cursor keys in insert mode ... that's why it's called a modal editor since 1976.

Yes I know. But is that what the other guy is referring to.

On vim-improved you can use that by default.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

That thought never occured to me. I switch between modes without thinking using vi since the early 1990s. Back then it was "learn vi" or "use ed". DOS had edlin.com, btw ...

 

[viniciusferrao]

That thought never occured to me. I switch between modes without thinking using vi since the early 1990s. Back then it was "learn vi" or "use ed". DOS had edlin.com, btw ...

Yeah I get it. If I talk with someone with 20 years old today they only use VSCode and nano and can only use that.

You can imagine my frustration when I had my 20's in 2005 (actually I had 18 on 2005) trying to install Gentoo on my Athlon64 and struggling with vi, so yes I still don't have the muscle memory to hit esc to navigate on the file, although I still cannot use nano without pressing esc, yank and paste, :line and /search.

So I effectively don't know how to use any text editor as today

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I use VScode for development work. vi is for editing remotely. VScode is the nicest environment I have used so far. I use a whole lot of programming languages and DSLs in parallel - YAML (Ansible), Python, shell, configuration files, ... So the heavier IDEs like IntelliJ or PHPstorm always felt oversized for me.