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Vim has had a legitimate impact on my life. Over the past 15 years I've been using it, "set -o vi" and similar in psql/ipython get added into my rc files almost

• imiric 3y ago
  Same here. Learning Vim commands has had one of the greatest ROI of anything I know. It's been invaluable over the years, and has probably saved me hundreds of hours of interacting with a computer. It's become muscle memory a long time ago, and editing text and moving a cursor on the screen takes no effort at all. It's one of those things I always suggest to new programmers. Learning Vim may arguably have a steep learning curve, but it will open your eyes to a different and more efficient way of interacting with text, which is something you constantly do as a programmer. I've enabled Vi(m) mode everywhere it's supported: from shells and everything that uses Readline, to making it the default in Emacs via evil-mode. The modal interface and mnemonic commands that can be combined in different ways is a far superior and more intuitive UI than the Emacs key chord UI. I love Vim. It's what got me started on this journey 20+ years ago. I still use it daily for quick edits, but prefer Emacs as an IDE, as it's a more extensible environment. With evil-mode, I get the best of both worlds. :) Bram has improved so many of our lives, and deserves to be recognized among the all time greats in our industry. RIP.