Re:Vim's speed is not really the point (2013)
by rebootthesystem on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:36PM
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I think I can say with a good degree of certainty that the hundreds of editors I have used during my career so far, including vi, vim and some self-written, have been absolutely and utterly irrelevant to the success, failure, timeline or budget of any project I've ever done.
In case the question comes up. Why self-written editors? In the early days of using Forth to bootstrap embedded systems you pretty much had to write yourself a decent code editor to go with the system. I've never written an editor for other systems I've used. Whatever was available was always good enough.
This is a point addressed in the article.
And that’s why I don’t really care about Vim “speed”. I am not “faster” using Vim. I do not generate noticeable more code at the end of the day. But I generate it with less effort and caring more about the quality than battling with my keyboard. I am more relaxed, more in control, focused in what matters. Caring about getting stuff done. More productive. That’s Vim killer feature.