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0 pointsgoldfeld13y ago0 comments

Well you've come off as quite the extremist shouting to the rooftops that people shouldn't try to be super efficient with vim. People who might not go out on a limb to say everyone should do it too. As for your comment on tabs and trees, sorry, those are heretics. True vim followers use buffers only.

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robomartin13y ago

> Well you've come off as quite the extremist shouting to the rooftops that people shouldn't try to be super efficient with vim.

That's the point. vim does not make you super-efficient at anything other than being a data entry clerk. That's not where significant value is developed in a technology business.

> True vim followers use buffers only.

Don't forget a Lear Siegler ADM3A terminal over a 300 BAUD modem leased line to the mainframe. Oh, wait, that's the way it was when vi was written.

:-)

I love this quote from Bill Joy: "I think if I were going to go back—I wouldn't go back, but start over again."

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html

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