• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Genuinely took most of my notes in college on vim, when you get good it’s just faster.

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      2 months ago

      I’m sure someone already made a graph plotting the hours wasted learning vs the seconds gained not moving your mouse.

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          2 months ago

          Nice.

          I’ve been using Vim daily for about 20 years, it saves me 30 minutes at a time regularly.

          I’m approaching break-even on the learning curve!

          I’m kidding…mostly.

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        2 months ago

        This. If it was your sole tool for daily tasks it makes sense, once a month to edit a config file…not so much.

        When I started working we had HP Unix Silicon Graphics systems, VI was our only text editor…so I have some commands as muscle memory. The rest of commands I open my tractor feed help printout from 30 years ago