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Do you guys have some kind of radar for this?
No, we have an Emacs mode for this
Probably it refers to the keystrokes that stretch out across eternity, like control escape alt mother's maiden birth certificate, etc.
As opposed to memorizing long strings of completely fictional and irrelevant keystrokes in vim, like :IDDQD!?IDKFA.
It all just boils down to preference. Btw these two sentences are the only ones in this message that are accurate.:-P
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vim has sane keybinds. I am not doing fucking C-x M-c M-butterfly just to change some goddamn text. Modal editors are inherently superior. :)
One thing I like about vim - which I use literally daily - is that if you time-traveled like 30 years into the past, it would still have the same bindings.
That is actually relevant today b/c when you ssh into a cluster computing / linux farm environment, there is no "mouse", no "clicking", no "selecting", etc., there is only what you can accomplish with your keyboard. Nano, pico etc. do exist - except of WHEN THEY DO NOT!!:-P - but vim is just EVERYWHERE. Regardless of how often I actually make use of that fact, I enjoy the confidence that it gives me that it is there for me when I need it:-).
Similarly for Unix shell scripting, and perl, vs. a language like Python where you never quite know what you are going to get irt to different versions on some other machine that you do not control. I mean, it's great when it actually works but...
Then again, to each their own, and I begrudge nobody their preferences, especially if it suits what they are doing in the moment:-).