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Re:Vim Anywhere by eadmund on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:19PM (#16398976)
> But I (obviously) always have Vim running, and can get to it from anywhere with one keystroke. Once there, opening a buffer and copying its contents after writing stuff is just a few more keystrokes …

As an emacs user, I just love seeing vim-users discover the utility of an always-there, complete text-editing environment. If only theirs had an extension language worth its salt …

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Re:Vim Anywhere by super_mario on Saturday February 17, 2018 @06:29AM (#16400246)
You can write vim extensions in python, Perl, ruby, lua and of course viml.

And vim launches in milliseconds, so no need to keep it running in the background as some text editing server.

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Re:Vim Anywhere by leephillips on Saturday February 17, 2018 @08:10AM (#16400514)
Both true, but since I'm always editing something, I have it open in server mode so I can send a file to it for editing from the terminal.
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