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Re:20 Years of Vim by cbm-vic-20 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @08:54PM (#37105584)
Be old. I went from VMS' EDT in the late 80s to JOE (Joe's Own Editor) on Ultrix, to Emacs, and finally Vim. I finally switched to Neovim after Bram's passing.
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Re:20 Years of Vim by uxcolumbo on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:31AM (#37106686)
What made you switch from emacs to vim?
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Re:20 Years of Vim by cbm-vic-20 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:02AM (#37109620)
Its complexity. Elisp is both a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to make deep, fundamental changes to Emacs via Elisp, but sometimes, you end up wading though very difficult-to-read code trying to figure out how it works. IME, vim is less flexible, but simpler when I just want to edit code and not think about Emacsisms.
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