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Worth learning vim/emacs? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by haakon@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/programming

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Im considering spending some serious time learning one of the above. Two principle engineers I work with exclusively use them, and watching them work is incredible, the speed they move and get things done is pure wizadry. Can anyone learn this skill? For what it's worth, the alternative is learning VScode. I’ve exclusive used Android Studio in my career.

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[–] Penguincoder 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Definitely. vim is hard to get used to, but after you do, it's damn powerful especially with plugins. Always nice to be able to do typing and coding entirely on the keyboard and not needing to move your hands to the mouse for something. Also, if you do any Linux cli stuff, you almost always have access to vi at LEAST. So being familiar with the tool she the gui and something like nano isn't available, is invaluable.

:wq

[–] arandomthought@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

I see what you did there. 😅

[–] burrp@burrp.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

:%s/she/set/g

[–] rostriano@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago

To add to that: start with vimtutor. It teaches you vim from within vim itself which is a really nice way to learn the basics.

[–] haakon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I think everyone unanimously agrees on this! Learning curve seems very steep but I’ll make it my daily driver for a few weeks

[–] Haus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

There are so many editors with Vi emulation that it's still very useful. When I actually used emacs all day every day, it was slightly superior to vi at the cost of a little overhead, and slight differences in different installations. But I think vi won the war by being universal Shift-A, Shift-I, Y, P, cw, c$, /foo... so much useful goodness baked into any emulator.

[–] toffi@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Slightly off topic but I always preferred :x for quitting and saving.

On the topic: learning vim keybindings is narrow path between usefull and I want to, in my opinion. So if you want to nothing is stopping you.