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Comment by spillcoffee

3 days ago

Do you lose all street cred if you use Emacs keyboard shortcuts whenever you can, but will use vim/nvim if there is no other choice?

You can just use evil mode inside emacs and get the best of both worlds.

Vim and Emacs barely overlap in functionality.

You always have a choice. Sometimes the best move is not to play.

  • A long time ago I was doing some on-site programming at a swiss bank, and the only available editors were vi on a Sun, or EDIT on a VMS machine (the project involved both.) I learned rudimentary vi on the fly while waiting for ftp-by-mail-over-uucp to deliver GNU emacs sources :-)