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Once you learn to jump quickly between words, lines, etc. and change whole blocks of text with a few strokes you discover another dimension of vim that's very h
by riledhel 14y ago
Once you learn to jump quickly between words, lines, etc. and change whole blocks of text with a few strokes you discover another dimension of vim that's very hard to replace with other tools.
- adestefan 14y agoIf you learn how to do the same things in emacs, about 90% of it carries over to the native text widgets in OS X and Linux.
- johncoltrane 14y agoNo. C-a and C-e and a dozen of others are there, yes, but good luck if you think you can use M-%, M-h or whatever is the Emacs equivalent of Vim's text-objects and motions (which is what the parent was thinking about).