Reasons for Transitioning to Vim (from eclipse/notepad) - what do you think?

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by TalGalili • 16 years ago

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PilotPirx• 16 years ago

I think that vim/emacs against the rest of world question is becoming unbelievably boring. For on, we all have heard those arguments over and over again, so no reason to write another blog post about it.<br /> Vim is fast? Great. How fast are you guys typing while you code? For me there is always enough time, to switch to the mouse. Plus I nearly never use any of those great automatic formatting features all those vim people talk about. Tab key works for me. (Though some editors are really bad here, so I avoid them or turn auto formatting off)<br /> Maybe I'm just a slow programmer, but I mostly type a few lines of code, then think again if that's right, often enough compile and run. There is just no time to be saved for me by smart keyboard shortcuts. Sorry...<br /> Though some knowledge of Vim is helpful in case you don't have access to a gui. So I can use vim good enough, to edit some config scripts and for similar tasks.

Reasons for Transitioning to Vim (from eclipse/notepad) - what do you think?

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