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> I think it's rather unlikely that VIM and Emacs are actually the most used editors, or even among the most used. Apparently there is enough demand for Vim ke
by gexla 12y ago
> I think it's rather unlikely that VIM and Emacs are actually the most used editors, or even among the most used.
Apparently there is enough demand for Vim key-bindings that it seems most text editors and IDE's have them available.
> The learning curve for VIM and Emacs is so high as to almost be prohibitive for what is probably the vast majority of users.
Vim is probably more widely used by developers and system admins than say... writers. If you have been able to tackle the learning curve of learning to program or learning to administer Linux then the VIM learning curve is just another day at the office.
- ravitation 12y agoNo one is saying that Vim key-bindings aren't incredibly useful, I'm saying that there is a reason those key-bindings are in most text editors and IDE's... because people are using those editors instead of Vim. Also, most developers are not Linux administrators... It's not that learning Vim or Emacs is hard, what's hard for most users is increasing one's productivity enough to warrant learning Vim or Emacs, especially in the short term. So most developers/users don't; they use text editors that have much more in common with word processors, which many have been using their entire lives.