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I stopped at you should learn vim. Just saying, please don't suggest that we take your preferences as the necessity. There are really great programmers who can do better with GUI

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I don't think it's a highly debated point that it's important to have a knowledge of vim. I didn't say you'd better be using it for all your coding (and I don't in fact), but it since a huge percentage of developers use it and it's installed by default on unix, I would say it's important to have a knowledge of.

I also didn't say that I am a great programmer, that every great programmer has to do these things, or that you have to do them. This is a push in the right direction for people learning to be developers, and I still think it's important to at least know the basics of vim, enough to get around.

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