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30 year old programmer here (started programming when I was 9, in LOGO, and then BASIC). While doing my BS in Software Eng. I tried Emacs and Vi for several mo
by xtracto 15y ago
30 year old programmer here (started programming when I was 9, in LOGO, and then BASIC).
While doing my BS in Software Eng. I tried Emacs and Vi for several months (really really wanting to like them) and I never "grok it". I've been using IDE's (Borland, Microsoft, IntelliJ, Eclispe, Netbeans, etc) and the only reason I touch Vi is to edit text files in my Linux installs.
Aside of that, I never really saw any benefit, but hey, maybe I am not cool enough.
- weaksauce 15y agoWell as a guy who likes vim quite a bit and is playing around with emacs because being a platform is interesting, you should really just pick one to use for a while. You have to actively pick up and use it though; pick a new feature every few days to learn and use. Downloading a fairly well thought out .vimrc file and using that will be a productivity boon if you choose vim. Change the leader to a comma, change : to ; to get into the command line quickly, exit insert mode with jj pressed instead of escape, use the hjkl keys to navigate, learn how easy and amazing the macros are, text-block navigation is great. There is a reason that there is a vim mode available as a plugin for most of the IDEs that you listed; text editing and navigation is really efficient with it. learn the verb-Til-character command dt> would delete until the > character on you line. If you want to grok vim this is the guide to read: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most... I would love for someone to show me a comment like that one for emacs as I am learning emacs currently.