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Discussion on: Should I learn Vim (or its keybindings)?

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Andy Gherna

Vim is a tool like grep awk or Python. The question I think should be asked is what do I gain from learning it.

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Andy Gherna

That said, my .vimrc file dates back to Aug 2000 so I may be what you’d call “old and grizzled”. I took a few years off from vim to see what I was missing in emacs which is also good. It comes down to athe question of what is the right tool for the job to me. Sometimes it’s vim. And sometimes it’s emacs. And again sometimes it’s something entirely different.