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Worth learning vim/emacs? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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Im considering spending some serious time learning one of the above. Two principle engineers I work with exclusively use them, and watching them work is incredible, the speed they move and get things done is pure wizadry. Can anyone learn this skill? For what it's worth, the alternative is learning VScode. I’ve exclusive used Android Studio in my career.

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[–] oscar 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Learning vim was valuable for me since many servers that I manage have it installed, so it's easy to edit files on them. For example advanced searches using regex (and replacing), multiline editing, jumping to function definitions etc.

For servers that don't, they usually have vi at the very least. (i.e. BusyBox)

As for emacs, I've been interested in trying it before but it seemed to require a separate graphical application? But I could be wrong.