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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by collyw on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:20AM (#23699534)
> And since, almost nothing else (save for maybe git) beat learning vim from a return on investment perspective.

Interesting. I generally use IDEs Pycharm or Eclipse, or VSCode depending on the language. Do you think I would gain a lot from learning VIM?

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by auggierose on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:30AM (#23699603)
No. It's like when somebody wants to learn how to fly, people tell them first to learn how to run really fast.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by alboy on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:32AM (#23699960)
Nowadays Vim isn't just Vim the text editor but rather a specification for text manipulation. All of the popular IDEs have Vim plugins and the benefits of learning both are perfectly additive.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by umanwizard on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:31AM (#23700627)
I think your timeline is inverted. vi-style text manipulation has been a thing long before Vim.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by alboy on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:58AM (#23701364)
I don't think I've claimed otherwise? Still, in my timeline those plugins aren't called IdeaEd or VsEm.
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