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Michael Minshew • Edited

Haha, I actually have been teaching myself vim as its useful for server work. I think i'll keep atom for my regular work but I appreciate vims simplicity, at least I appreciate it until I forget how to exit for 5 minutes lol.

I will add that I do live the fact that I can pushd to a location touch a file and then edit on the spot. Never leaving the command line is great for focus and I appreciate that.

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Eljay-Adobe

Also there is the whole "emacs vs vi" flame war that was raging decades ago, only remembered by neckbeards like myself. I was an emacs user, tried vi for six months, and never went back to emacs. The other dev with whom we had bet to switch editors, immediately went back to vi after having used emacs for six months.

I know, there are emacs fans out there. After having used it for years, I can say that it is an impressive development environment, an operating system unto itself, and really an entire religion... the only thing it lacks is a decent text editor.