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by dezzadk 1279 days ago
Vim is way more customizable and portable than any gui editor imo. An extreme amount of filetype support is builtin to the vim runtime, try to peek how many definitions there are in the src/runtime path on github.

I think its well worth it. Even for the macros, normal commands there is no more efficient way to edit text.

If all touch keyboards had vim-mode we'd all be more productive on smartphones. People who use vim over ssh on mobile devices knows this. I've remapped the record macro (q) to (qq) on mobile devices and put my normal-mode leader key on q, it works really well.