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by nickysielicki 126 days ago
> Imagine being a vim or emacs user and have those replaced by something you have to type entire sentences for functionality.

This has already happened for a non-negligible amount of people on this site. I still use magit to prepare commits and review diffs. Everything else is English and Claude code or opencode.

Ironically, part of the reason I like emacs and formerly liked vim was because it reduced the amount of time my hands had to leave the keyboard. I simply look where I want to type, press the chord to jump with avy, and then begin typing. New tools are spiritually aligned with this goal. I look at the screen, I think about what I don’t like, and now instead of translating the criticism into code changes, I just stream my thoughts directly into the tool.