Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Vim is so complicated, over a million people have looked up how to exit it on Stack Overflow


Vim is a brilliant text editor. When you finally wrap your head around its idiosyncrasies and general weirdness, you find yourself way more productive than you were before, and the very idea of going back seems unthinkable. But it’s different, though. Hugely different. Vim works in a way that’s unlike anything else, and it took me a few weeks of deliberate practice to get anywhere close to productive. Thankfully, I started learning it during a software development internship, where there was no expectation for me to be an A-grade player. Highlighting the difficulties that people have when it comes to…

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