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Is learning a text editor like vi necessary and still worth the time today? [closed]

I started a new internship where all the servers run on AIX. Logging in for the first time I was suprised to see that my favorite text editor nano was not installed. Everyone here uses vi not ...
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Color of the fonts in my remote terminal screen when using VI in linux

I notice one of my linux remote login window shows color in VI editor interface but another window doesn't show color. These 2 windows are remotely connected to 2 different server IP addresses. May ...
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How to delete the line after a search pattern, globally with vi?

Assume I have a big file, ~1k lines, and I need to delete the line after some pattern, lets call it: somePatern. Conditions: cannot be done by hand (no searching -- /somePattern, and/or manually ...
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How do I get just the user-manual for Vim

To get the vim user-manual I am doing vi test and then, once the file is opened, I do :help user-manual This opens up a split window, which makes reading manual inconvenient to read. How do I ...