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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by sillysaurus3 on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:30PM (#13052799)
It's probably best to learn both. I usually switch back and forth. Just spend a week or so forcing yourself to use only vim and you'll never forget it.
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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by vowelless on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:34PM (#13052819)
Blasphemy! You should only use vim.

(/s kind of... I just love vim too much)

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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by sillysaurus3 on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:37PM (#13052829)
I used to feel similarly, but vim inside emacs is pretty sweet. The emacs package "evil" gives almost perfect vim emulation. Suddenly the entire emacs ecosystem is available to anyone who knows vim. And the ecosystem is massive.
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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by joatmon-snoo on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:38AM (#13053626)
As a vim user who's yet to learn emacs...

wat.

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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by weaksauce on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:11AM (#13053727)
Try spacemacs. It's really good. Most advanced vim stuff works as well as or better than in vim.
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