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Sure, but how many of that number are keeping personal notes in vi?
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
Sure, but how many of that number are keeping personal notes in vi?
- selfhoster11 5y agoPresumably, any number that prefer a terminal based workflow, or have the Vi key scheme burned into muscle memory. Or those that prefer an ultra-minimalist text editor for writing. Just a decade ago, it was almost a meme that the Emacs and Vi factions fought over which editor is better. I imagine that those that truly bought into the Vi ecosystem/fandom use it in preference to other available options.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y agoYou're speaking to a veteran of said editor wars (vi won, naturally) and I still think the number of folks you describe is small these days. I imagine most have switched to a more GUI-friendly editor.
- trn 5y agoI dogfood OpenVi and use it for OpenVi development, however, 99% of my normal programming workflow is (terminal-based) NeoVim. The other 1% is Eclipse or VSCode ... and I have VSCode setup to use the embedding functionality of NeoVim.