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Lots of people use vim just to appear hardcore and not because it confers serious editing advantage. Vim itself is a really really bad editor. It's so obvious
by cupofcoffee 6y ago
Lots of people use vim just to appear hardcore and not because it confers serious editing advantage.
Vim itself is a really really bad editor. It's so obvious that it was written by a programmer with commands like 5dd, 6gg etc. I find it so ridiculous that a computer program can be that much loved and yet it doesn't even provide line numbers out of the box nor indentation. Does a person really need to spend half an hour googling just to tell vim to indent Java code as they type.
- __m 6y agoI think it does offer editing advantages, though they don’t matter that much unless you work in a sweat shop. For me it’s just fun going like “look mum, no mouse“