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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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[–] 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.