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How (and why) I use Vim

Giovanni Naufal on March 01, 2019

Vim in action There's much discussion of what is the best text editor among programmers and developers on the web. There are a lot of options, ...
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Giovanni Naufal

Great! I always forget about that. I've remapped my caps-lock to be a CTRL or ESC, depending on how it's pressed, só I almost never use the real ESC key too.

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Giovanni Naufal

SpaceVim seems nice, but I learned using Vim using the dotfiles of the company I used to work, and as I also use tmux in my workflow, I figured it would be much trouble to swtich to another vim distribution.

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waynee95 • Edited

I remember the struggle on how to quit vim. First time I encountered it, was in a class where we had to work on a Raspberry Pi connected via ssh and the only Editor we had was Vim.

It was a really terrible experience. After probably 1 year I thought, maybe I should give it a second try.

Nearly 1 year passed and I am now using Vim as my main editor. It will take a bit of time to get used to but it's worth it in the end. Everyone should at least try Vim for a few days, but I don't think it will work out for everyone. However, it gives text editing a whole new feel.

Nowadays, I find myself typing ":wq" into non-vim programs 😂👌

 
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Jaime González García

CTRL-C also works. I find easier to type than CTRL-[ 😄

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jorin

Nice post!

The best explanation of vim I have seen so far has been this answer on stackoverflow :)

stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/986455