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Valid point. I have to give some updoots for VIM, (or emacs too i guess). The visual editing gives you such an advantage, i'm talking just about coding. Most of my co-workers come from science background and think VI is a joke from that crazy professor in college. I forced myself to really learn VI one summer in 2013. Since then i've been flying around my text editor.

I'm not lying, co-workers think you are a god damn wizard. I try not to be a doosh, but I have one co-worker who loves VIM but doesnt really use it (insert mode ftw). Whenever I can i try to subtly drop hints. "Instead of hitting the arrows keys over and then backspacing, you can type cw to change the word" Just little things like that. Once you realize that vim is modular and chainable, you really start to take off!




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