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vim needs to be used in fewer places, not more.

• ibejoeb 9y ago
  Why? I use vi/vim for its ubiquity. Isn't it nice knowing you can show up at practically any terminal and have it at your disposal?
  • nategri 9y ago
    Exactly why I switched to vim from emacs. I also never let my bashrc or vimrc files grow too baroque.
    • gkya 9y ago
      Knowing both is not hard. Also if you don't change too much defaults it's not hard to downgrade to vanilla programs. My init.el is above 3000 lines, but I can easily use vanilla Emacs any time if I need to (or vi/vim/ex/ed for that matter). Same for bash, my .profile and .bashrc combined count ~300 lines, both POSIX compatible, and I'd hardly have a hard time at a foreign shell prompt. That's because I use configuration to extend, configure and personalise a program, instead of trying to recreate it. (Edit: 300 not 900)
• middleclick 9y ago
  Some context to the statement would be great.