> I still can’t be bothered to learn emacs or vim. I’ve tried and it just never sticks. I remember fewer commands in vim than I knew 10 years ago. It's kind of

> I still can’t be bothered to learn emacs or vim. I’ve tried and it just never sticks. I remember fewer commands in vim than I knew 10 years ago. It's kind of the opposite for me. One day I read an interesting comment about vim and took the vimtutor out of curiosity and it immediately clicked. I always hated learning keyboard shortcuts in other applications and I always forgot them shortly after, but with vim it feels like having learned a tiny foreign language. There's a small grammar and a small vocabulary, which means you don't have to remember each keyboard shortcut, just like you I don't have to remember every sentence of the English language. And the best thing is, every single tiny addition to your vocabulary allows to form a plethora of new sentences, so it always felt amazing learning a new motion or text object in vim. > Also, I feel like I do more reading code and debugging than writing nowadays, and I am not bothered by my speed at writing code. I am neither. But I feel editing text with vim needs less thinking on my part, i.e. I can translate my intend easily to vims language without getting interrupted too much.