> Apparently my vi command muscle memory hasn't faded.
Back in the day I did most of my dev work on Solaris. I then spent 4 years as CTO as a startup that was pretty much only Windows.
When I subsequently went back to working at a unix shop I was initially struggling with vi as I tried to read some of the C++ code. I couldn't remember commands, was having to refer to the man pages every few mins. It was torture.
A couple of days in, I was writing up some notes in vi when someone walked past my desk and started chatting. When we finished talking I looked down at the monitor and I'd written more than I had when I was concentrating, nicely formatted, the works. Turns out "my hands" had remembered a load of what I thought I had forgotten.
For the next few days I had to keep finding ways to distract myself so that I could work efficiently. Eventually it all came to the foreground but it was the most bizarre experience while it was happening.
Back in the day I did most of my dev work on Solaris. I then spent 4 years as CTO as a startup that was pretty much only Windows.
When I subsequently went back to working at a unix shop I was initially struggling with vi as I tried to read some of the C++ code. I couldn't remember commands, was having to refer to the man pages every few mins. It was torture.
A couple of days in, I was writing up some notes in vi when someone walked past my desk and started chatting. When we finished talking I looked down at the monitor and I'd written more than I had when I was concentrating, nicely formatted, the works. Turns out "my hands" had remembered a load of what I thought I had forgotten.
For the next few days I had to keep finding ways to distract myself so that I could work efficiently. Eventually it all came to the foreground but it was the most bizarre experience while it was happening.