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Vim is a well-sharpened pocket knife, a precision tool that excels at editing text interactively. It’s interesting to me the different models for tools that ad

Vim is a well-sharpened pocket knife, a precision tool that excels at editing text interactively. It’s interesting to me the different models for tools that address similar problems. I used to use vim, and the chords of keystrokes are still fresh in my mind, even though I switched to emacs years ago. And now I use vanilla emacs —but that model is totally different, it’s an okay text editor but an excellent customizable user shell. It’s not a matter of better//worse, but of different philosophical approaches

Cyph0n 6y ago
When deciding between whether to learn Vim or Emacs, Vim won me over with three things: 1) Learning Vim increased my efficiency across multiple machines, and not just my dev machine. 2) It's extremely lightweight. Note: you still need to be careful with plugins! 3) Modal editing is easier on the wrists. Most of my time as a developer is spent navigating through code (whether editing or browsing), and Vim's normal mode keybindings are much less modifier-based.