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Emacs/Vim/Vi - do they have a place in modern software development ecosystem? [closed]
Watching all those screencasts (and listening all those podcasts) with more-or-less famous hackers/programmers I hear that many of those use emacs/vi(m) for their daily work.
Now, I myself tried ...
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Learning emacs with vi keybindings
Let me get my reasons straight first, and then of course they could be bad reasons: I want to learn the emacs environment, and I'm especially interested in org-mode, but I'm a touch-typist (dvorak) ...
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Intermediate to advanced book for improving VIM knowledge and understanding
I use vim already for quite a while and every day try to learn new things. But, somehow I yet don't feel that I own it. I'm looking for some intermediate to advanced books on vim which may be used as ...
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How frequently do you switch mode? [closed]
I tried VIM and liked it but something stopped from using it: I had to type ESC to often, very often, something like each 5 seconds, and it was highly uncomfortable, so I stopped using it as a primary ...
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Why would you use vi/vim [duplicate]
I often see people express a preference for vi or vim for text editing or even for programming.
I've tried it and I can't see how it could possibly be any faster or easier. If you use one of them, ...
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Using vi with modern keyboards
I've decided to focus on one editor to do all programming, documentation, email, database querying, etc (in the spirit of The Pragmatic Programmer's idea that a programmer should focus on getting good ...
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Time to drop Emacs and vi? [duplicate]
Every time you are looking for a text editor, no matter what language you are using, vi and Emacs are hall-of-famers.
However they are ancient, and we have better alternatives (at least I hope we ...
