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Re:Vim.wasm by apetresc on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:06AM (#19748234)
I wonder if there are any studies that look at how hard it is to permanently readjust muscle memory as you age.

Would I ever (at 31) ever achieve the same fluency with emacs if I switched cold-turkey today as I've developed with vim in my teens and twenties? What about in my fifties?

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Re:Vim.wasm by thomasfortes on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:19AM (#19748386)
I'm 33, switched to emacs the end of the last year, still find the way that vim edit files better, but the ecosystem around emacs has a ton of niceties, so for me the solution was to install evil-mode and configure it to work as close as possible to my vim configuration, but in the end I decided to left some things the emacs way.

Now I sometimes find myself using some of the emacs shortcuts when editing files with vim...

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Re:Vim.wasm by stjohnswarts on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:07PM (#19749553)
Nah when you hit 50 you're basically just a burned out husk and can't learn anything new, not even your muscles.

Love, Silicon Valley

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