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I was fortunate enough to pick up vim in my teenage years on the job where I worked on remote unix machines. I still learn new stuff all the time but using vim
by gfodor 14y ago
I was fortunate enough to pick up vim in my teenage years on the job where I worked on remote unix machines. I still learn new stuff all the time but using vim is kind of like speaking, breathing, or typing to me at this point, and I don't really remember the initial learning and struggling phase anymore. I feel pretty lucky in this and a) I don't care if other people use vim, really and b) I have a tough time empathizing when people who want to use it get so emotional about how hard it is to learn. It's kind of like hearing someone complain about how difficult English is or learning to type and getting in debates over if it's worth learning. To me it's pretty obvious that I could not live without it. But arguing about it is irrelevant to me and I can only sympathize in the most abstract way because I don't really remember "learning" English or typing. But I'm sure it would be extremely hard to pick up at this point in my life from scratch.