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Re:Patience too cheap to meter by skydhash on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:24AM (#44037775)
> easy, mechanical, boring af, and something we should almost obviously outsource to machines

That’s when you learn vim or emacs. Instead of editing character wise, you move to bigger structures. Every editing task becomes a short list of commands and with the power of macros, repeatable. Then if you do it often, you add (easily) a custom command for it.

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Re:Patience too cheap to meter by andyferris on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:51AM (#44037915)
Speaking of tedious and exhausting my patience… learning to use vim and emacs properly. I do like vim but I barely know how to use it and I’ve had well over a decade of opportunity to do so!

Pressing TAB with copilot to cover use cases you’ve never needed to discover a command or write a macro for is actually kinda cool, IMO.

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