How Did Vim Become So Popular?

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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