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Re:Abandoning VIM by johncoltrane on Sunday September 09, 2012 @07:44AM (#4495568)
> Seemed like I was trying too hard to make it do something that it wasn't intended to do.

This is a very common mistake, really. Vim is different. Not embracing this difference will only result in frustration.

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Re:Abandoning VIM by Daegalus on Sunday September 09, 2012 @05:58PM (#4497157)
What I meant by that actually, was everyone says to use it as an IDE, but it felt like I was trying too hard to make it work like an IDE, than accept ti for what it really is, just a text editor with some useful scripts.
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Re:Abandoning VIM by johncoltrane on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:29AM (#4498438)
Not everyone. A few blowhards with blogs. You were just following what seemed like an universal truth. There's nothing really wrong with that.

Most of Vim users simply take it as it is and don't waste other people's time misleading them.

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