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Discussion on: Vim won't make you a more productive developer

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Drew Knab

Midnight ramble of positive things that spending a buttload of time in vim has given me is:

  1. Reduced time to get comfortable using a new required editor.
  2. Rewired my brain to understand that autocomplete/intellisense is a luxury not a necessity.

For the first one, I just install the highest rated vim binding plugin and it's off to the races.

In my last job it was randomly having to use eclipse on a project. Now it's moving over Visual Studio 2017, let alone the time I've spent in Unity's little mono develop thing, XCode, PHPStorm, etc.

I already have vim movement and editing commited to muscle memory, I just don't want to waste the brainspace on adding more hotkeys to temporary text editors.

The second one is important to me, probably shouldn't be, all things considered.