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Re:Vim Anywhere by greatamerican on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:43PM (#16395972)
vim needs to be used in fewer places, not more.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by ibejoeb on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:45PM (#16396001)
Why? I use vi/vim for its ubiquity. Isn't it nice knowing you can show up at practically any terminal and have it at your disposal?
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Re:Vim Anywhere by nategri on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:13PM (#16396357)
Exactly why I switched to vim from emacs. I also never let my bashrc or vimrc files grow too baroque.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by gkya on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:42AM (#16400099)
Knowing both is not hard. Also if you don't change too much defaults it's not hard to downgrade to vanilla programs. My init.el is above 3000 lines, but I can easily use vanilla Emacs any time if I need to (or vi/vim/ex/ed for that matter). Same for bash, my .profile and .bashrc combined count ~300 lines, both POSIX compatible, and I'd hardly have a hard time at a foreign shell prompt. That's because I use configuration to extend, configure and personalise a program, instead of trying to recreate it.

(Edit: 300 not 900)

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Re:Vim Anywhere by middleclick on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:47PM (#16396024)
Some context to the statement would be great.
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