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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by terhechte on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:01AM (#4280979)
Even though I think that VIM is the best text editor (please no Emacs vs VIM now) it is not a good editor for the casual user and doesn't blend into Mac OS X too well. Most of my coworkers in my old company didn't touch it with a ten foot pole - even though they were programmers. They used TextMate or Sublime or Coda. I tried to sell them on VIM but in the end the learning curve was too high and they settled for something where everything was easily reachable through menus.

So I think VIM is not a good example of a good free Mac text editor.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by tincholio on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:37AM (#4281176)
> So I think VIM is not a good example of a good free Mac text editor.

You should qualify that with the demographics at your previous company. VIM (and Emacs) are perfectly good free editors for the Mac or any other platform.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by Killswitch on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:39AM (#4281184)
Although I do like Vim, and MacVim, I agree, it just doesn't fit the Mac persona and I personally use TextMate.
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