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Why aren't you using Vim?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-20 13:03

Why aren't you using Vim for all of your text editing needs?

Using Vim (or Emacs if you're a macfag) literally allows you to get better at editing text with time. Time spent with the editor gains rent.

Compare this to using an IDE, you will always be as good at editing text as you were when you first started. The ability to get better at editing text doesn't exist with IDEs.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-20 22:50

vim is okay for quick, simple edits to files whose formatting is highly line oriented (any tool that counts AT&T Research as an influence probably uses such files).  Short scripts and config files are ideal for vim.

It starts sucking horribly, however, when you try to use it for something more complicated, like refactoring a large C codebase. I'm currently considering switching to emacs because it feels like I'm slowly reimplementing it anyway, one line of vimscript at a time.

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