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Re:How to Exit Vim by manmademagic on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:47AM (#21990885)
Had the same thing when I was studying CompSci.

Ended up spending more time configuring vim than doing the work I was supposed to do.

Even did the completely pointless exercise of making custom syntax highlighting for the pseudocode language we had to use.

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Re:How to Exit Vim by joncrane on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:26AM (#21991698)
This prepared you for the 'real world' better than any programming lessons could!
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Re:How to Exit Vim by Aperocky on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:55PM (#21993913)
Once configured vim works fine. I probably spend 1-2 hour/day in vim for my personal projects but haven’t configured anything in months.
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Re:How to Exit Vim by manmademagic on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:15AM (#21999154)
I think I had most things working properly within the first few days, but kept customizing and changing settings/fonts/themes/plugins.

Mostly procrastinating by pretending I was "Being Productive"

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