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Like people using eMacs or vim these days
by japanman425 4y ago
Like people using eMacs or vim these days
- veltas 4y agoNot to start a flame war, but no, people use vim and Emacs because they're productive with them. I've certainly tried alternatives like vscode seriously and find I prefer vim.
- vanderZwan 4y agoArguably you need a bit of fetishization to get started with them though.
- samastur 4y agoOr just start early. I learned vi in Uni as part of our course and it's always there so I keep using it (but not solely).
- shadowgovt 4y agoIn my case, it was using Linux distros pre-vscode that got me into emacs. In that era, your choices for general-purpose developer-oriented file editor were (a) emacs, (b) vim, (c) something that was ported from another OS and either running in an emulator or running atop a library stack that barely worked on your architecture and would take like thirty seconds to boot up.
- efreak 4y agoOr nano/pico for the biggest, but there were other options available. Midnight commander has an editor, too.
- veltas 4y agovscode didn't exist when I learned vim, and Visual Studio was only on Windows, and I had seen demonstrated that people using vim seemed to be a lot faster manipulating and navigating code.