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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by BeetleB on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:29PM (#15368864)
>I can tell you from experience that it wouldn't take long to learn enough vim to make you look back on that preference and wonder why you didn't learn sooner.

I can tell you from my experience that after spending a fair amount of time to learn vi, I gave up.

Not everyone has the same mental models as you do. Having a separate input and beep mode was something my brain never internalized. Using it was always painfully slow as switching modes never became automatic for me.

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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by brazzledazzle on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:45PM (#15413670)
Fair point. But if it helps you feel any better I gave up several times and just barely got by with editing (very slowly) when I didn't have alternatives. What finally motivated me into overcoming my mental block was regular expressions of all things. When I realized how powerful (despite being flaky and inconsistent) regexes were in the Windows editors I'd tried I couldn't live without them and it didn't take long before I realized how much better vim was than even that.
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