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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by davedx on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:06AM (#5413451)
I'm the same really. I had to learn vim when I started at a games company that had a Linux build chain. I printed out the keyboard quick reference and was reasonably productive after a few weeks. The only plugin we used was ctags, to be able to find shit in our massive C/C++ codebase, but that worked ok (despite having to manually rebuild tags yourself).

I agree with the author - I'd also recommend Sublime Text 2 - but vim fills a great niche - when you only have a telnet terminal, so it's always good to know the basics.

Right tool, right job, etc.

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by andybak on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:04AM (#5414453)
> reasonably productive after a few weeks

Dear God. We're talking about a text editor.

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by goldfeld on Thursday March 21, 2013 @09:28AM (#5414844)
Dear God, we're talking about what programmers spend the majority of their working hours using, for the foreseeable future. I suppose you never learn new programming languages, because god forbid, you're gonna be crippled for some time getting around new frameworks there and who really wants to make investments?
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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by npsimons on Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:04AM (#5415488)
In all fairness, the argument being made is that learning vim is a waste of time for programmers on a deadline who don't already know it, or they wouldn't benefit from it. I have made the same argument about learning PHP, MATLAB and C# (while at the same time being eager to learn about just about any language new to me, eg, Go, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc).
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