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"If you're wondering why so many people would choose to use a fifty year old text editor with a notoriously steep initial learning curve, it's because once you learn it, you can be ruthlessly efficient with your editing."

Been using vi for decades, mostly nvi and vim 4.6 since UNIX became available for the PC. I still feel like I only utilise a small fraction of what's possible. I believe I do many things "the slow way". In truth I prefer non-interactive editing, e.g., ed, sed, flex

I once saw a video on YouTube that was a "meme" clip of a presenter doing some text manipulation with vi while sharing his screen at a conference. The clip had had been edited to suggest what he was doing with vi was somehow particularly impressive, e.g., mind-blowing "("mind blown")

Everything he was doing was stuff I do all the time. I thought WTF

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Believe me, as someone who grew up coding in Eclipse and Visual Studio in the late 2000s and only learning about (neo)vi(m) in the last three years, it's mind blowing. Just different generations and how the coding culture has changed especially after VS Code blew up in the 2010s and thus was the only editor my generation would ever use for the most part