People think seeing more lines at once - biggers displays, multiple monitors - makes them more productive. Let's compare what the people in this article accomp

People think seeing more lines at once - biggers displays, multiple monitors - makes them more productive. Let's compare what the people in this article accomplished and how many lines they could edit at once: C, unix - 1 line BSD unix - 24 lines (Not really fair, as a hardcopy has many lines). > Vim is the most popular text-mode (i.e. terminal emulator) editor I'm pretty sure the vast majority of programming is done in an IDD, not a terminal. > good ideas accumulated gradually over time. ... enjoyed contributions from some of the greatest minds in the computing world. A bigger factor is preseving investment in muscle memory. e.g. The choice of hjkl was not genius (any more than qwerty). But why change once fluent?