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Re:Poll: Greatest productivity app on Mac? by santigepigon on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:56PM (#2860931)
Yes it's for code, and also a little more. I've come to learn that vim is quite the powerful editor. I use it to avoid internet distractions while writing code or even prose.
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Re:Poll: Greatest productivity app on Mac? by AdnanChowdhury on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:51PM (#2861533)
Yes, I've heard that vim was a popular IDE. Although, its not very appealing to me because i don't like its interface much.
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Re:Poll: Greatest productivity app on Mac? by santigepigon on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:01PM (#2861765)
If you like, there are configurations that make vim act like conventional text editors[1][2]. To paraphrase Umberto Eco, I like vim for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences[3].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-e...

[2] http://cream.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,...

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