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by mtdewcmu 4779 days ago
I'm glad someone mentioned this. I used emacs for years and was totally ignorant of vi/vim, but I started getting pain in my hand from all the key-combos. I was skeptical of modes, but it turns out to be pretty natural, and I actually like the concept of editing as a sequence of transactions with a start and end, rather than one continuous stream. I've never gone overboard with customizing either editor, so for me it was primarily ergonomics.