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> But I (obviously) always have Vim running, and can get to it from anywhere with one keystroke. Once there, opening a buffer and copying its contents after wri
by eadmund 9y ago
> But I (obviously) always have Vim running, and can get to it from anywhere with one keystroke. Once there, opening a buffer and copying its contents after writing stuff is just a few more keystrokes …
As an emacs user, I just love seeing vim-users discover the utility of an always-there, complete text-editing environment. If only theirs had an extension language worth its salt …
- super_mario 9y agoYou can write vim extensions in python, Perl, ruby, lua and of course viml. And vim launches in milliseconds, so no need to keep it running in the background as some text editing server.
- leephillips 9y agoBoth true, but since I'm always editing something, I have it open in server mode so I can send a file to it for editing from the terminal.