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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by ecf on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:07AM (#37019415)
The issue with Vim for me is that it takes years for the keybinds to be picked up as muscle memory. Learning takes effort, people can’t learn everything. And there’s an endless amount of things I can learn other than Vim that will give me a more fulfilling life.
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by TheGreatCabbage on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:07AM (#37020210)
In my case, it only took a few months to be more effective with Vim than without it. Since I spend most of my time working, Vim is a great improvement to my quality of life. The benefits of Vim include not just productivity, but also comfort.
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by FreshStart on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:12AM (#37021136)
It helps to design the yourself in neovim?
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by fuzztester on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:07PM (#37041610)
I think it's more of a needed mental shift than years or effort that is the stumbling block.

You don't need to pick up a lot of keybinds in order to be fairly productive at text editing in vim.

The extra stuff will just make you more productive, maybe asymptomatically.

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by fuzztester on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:01PM (#37043999)
>asymptomatically

Heh, dang autocorrect or me, not sure.

I meant asymptotically.

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