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Comment by brazzledazzle | Hacker News Reader

The main reason is that Vim is better, right?

Amen to that. Although I think I feel like I am participating in a war I don't want to be part of.

But this has been a line in my shell config since I was teenager.

  export EDITOR=vim VISUAL=vim  # Viva vim, death to emacs

OK, since we're wasting our time on the Pointless Editor War, I shall confess I know exactly one thing about Vim, the command `:q!'. That's all I've ever needed to know.

It’s one third of what you’ll ever need to use Vim:

  i
  <Esc>:w
  :q

Vim added :x though it doesn't exist in Vim

doesn't exist in vi

You can use :wq to do both at the same time.

Yes, but that adds one more command.

You can also do ZZ instead of :x, if you're playing keystroke golf.

It's been reduced to q in lazyvim, at least at the intro screen.

<shift> z z

Much quicker exit ;)

Technoreligious wars are emotional / black-and-white / stupid thinking / herd mentality, a priori. There is more than one way and one tool in the toolbox. You might not "like" every thing, but other things exist, function, and accomplish work.

Sorry, I intended this comment more as a joke than a reality. Although I really like vim and don't like emacs.

”Using vi is not a sin, it’s a penance” - you know who

Emacs has evil mode. Does that make vim a morally superior choice?

No. It means Emacs, the morally superior one, has a mode that makes it evil - by definition morally inferior. :D

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