On: Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)

[Bekwnn]

In my experience it was about 3-4 weeks of forcing 100% use before vim became more effective than regular text editing, but a lot of the pain was gone after ~1.5 weeks.

Then you know it for life. Unquestionably worth it.

[_4ziu → Bekwnn]

It only took me like a week to get used to vim. I obviously still don't use it to its full capabilities but i can use it like a normal text editor now.

Emacs by comparison makes no sense to me.

[chestervonwinch → _4ziu]

The vim operation+movement paradigm is pretty intuitive once you grok it. I’m not really sure if I ever “got” emacs.