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Something like Vim still benefits from the composability of the command line interface. I can write and read buffers to/from other processes, asynchronously run
by gpanders 5y ago
Something like Vim still benefits from the composability of the command line interface. I can write and read buffers to/from other processes, asynchronously run commands and pipe the output into Vim, and of course I can always put Vim in the background at any time which immediately drops me into my shell, where I have complete and full access to the entirety of the machine.
These are the main reasons I stick with terminal based editors over something like VS Code with Vim bindings. Using a separate GUI breaks that deep integration with the shell, which for me just creates too much friction for not enough benefit.