Why I use Vim

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I had a lot of discussions with my colleagues recently because they can't believe I use Vim for almost everything. This post is about why I do so.

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Actually... The image at the end reads "One does not simply... reimplement vim"

FWIW evil-mode for emacs has done just that, and IMHO, in most cases, actually is a better vim that vim itself. Its not just a shallow subset of a few vim keyboard shortcuts, but pretty much a complete reimplementation of vim, in elisp.

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Hey! Very interesting! I haven't used emacs yet, so I didn't know about that evil-mode. :)

I'll check it out but I doubt that it's a complete reimplementation.

However, glad you like emacs though :)

I have trouble imagining a person who would care what text editor you use and would then be surprised to hear that you use Vim or Emacs.

Well it's actually more about that their suprised i'm using a text editor instead of an IDE at all.

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