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You put off learning Emacs partly because you learned Vim first. But why did you learn Vim first? Because people around you were already using Vim. Because Vim
by dfabulich 6y ago
You put off learning Emacs partly because you learned Vim first. But why did you learn Vim first? Because people around you were already using Vim. Because Vim came preinstalled. Because Vim was quicker and easier to just edit a file.
Startup performance isn't about persuading fence sitters. It's about becoming the default, the option people pick without even knowing why they picked it.
- catalogia 6y agoIn truth when I was a teenager I sat down with vim and emacs one afternoon and tried both. At the end of that day I chose vim, because I preferred the default bindings of vim. Nobody around me used either, nobody around me programmed at all, but I had read online that the pros used or or the other.