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Comment by tzhenghao

Vim. I was first introduced to this text editor back in college. It has super weird navigation rules and editing modes that would easily deter many beginners. 70-80% of my course mates gave up on it and chose something else that worked more like a normal text editor such as Sublime/Atom.

It took me several months to develop that muscle memory to increase my productivity. Today, I can log in remotely to my AWS instance, edit a few files and do it all without leaving the terminal. I hear similar benefits on the Emacs camp too.

The steep learning curve was well worth it. I don't think I've shipped any source file without opening/editing it on Vim before.

parent tzhenghao 10 years ago

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