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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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    [–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm sure someone already made a graph plotting the hours wasted learning vs the seconds gained not moving your mouse.

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Nice.

    I've been using Vim daily for about 20 years, it saves me 30 minutes at a time regularly.

    I'm approaching break-even on the learning curve!

    I'm kidding...mostly.

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

    This. If it was your sole tool for daily tasks it makes sense, once a month to edit a config file...not so much.

    When I started working we had HP Unix Silicon Graphics systems, VI was our only text editor...so I have some commands as muscle memory. The rest of commands I open my tractor feed help printout from 30 years ago