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Arguably you need a bit of fetishization to get started with them though.

• samastur 4y ago
  Or 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 ago
  In 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 ago
    Or nano/pico for the biggest, but there were other options available. Midnight commander has an editor, too.
• veltas 4y ago
  vscode 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.