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over 2 years ago Avatar
The swiss army-knife of text-editing

    by TheAlienist

If you spend a lot of time writing and/or editing text (code, scripts, config files, etc...), then you owe it to yourself to invest in learning vim or emacs.

I chose Vim because I learned it in college. I can't honestly say it's better than emacs, but the bottom line is that any of these 2 editors can drastically improve your productivity.

Sure those flashy IDE's look impressive with the doo-hickeys all over the place. But the ... [More] truth is that when you peel away the visual clutter of those IDEs, it really comes down to the code. And when you need to navigate and edit code, vim lets you be as productive as your mind can be. Mousing around is just clunky and slow.

Mastering vim commands feels very much like learning to link combos on tony hawk pro skater: the end effects multiply to make the whole larger than the sum of its parts. [Less]

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over 2 years ago Avatar
The Best Open Source Editor

  by Armin Ronacher

Clearly the best OpenSource editor. If people say it's too complex etc; that's partially true but it's worth learning it. Really, really powerful and you can script it in many languages including ruby and python.

Here some links if you're new to Vim or want to find out something new:
- http://lucumr.pocoo.org/articles/vim-as-development-environment
- http://amix.dk/blog/viewLabelPosts/5

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10 months ago Avatar
Awesome

  by k00pa

Vim is awesome text editor! It is so fast and small, and runs on every os I use.

It has never crashed and it is fast as light.

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