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Easy migration from vim? (retrolemmy.com)

submitted 5 days ago by JakeSparkleChicken@retrolemmy.com to c/emacs@programming.dev

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I've been using vim/Neovim since 1999, and the amount of muscle memory that I've built up is deeply ingrained. I'm thinking that it may be time to branch out a bit and try my hand at emacs. How would you recommend dipping my toes into the emacs tackle box?

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[–] brem@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

After more than 10 years vim I switched a couple of years ago to emacs, using the vanilla key bindings. I didn’t have much trouble. Just like with vim, you have to invest some time to learn basic editing commands.

Start using emacs and slowly learn more for you important key bindings.

Switching to emacs is worth the investment of time. Vim is an editor, emacs is a system and kind of a Lisp machine.