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Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:37AM
Vim is the closest thing to telekinesis i'll likely ever come. There are a lot of commands in it, but that also means that there is always a way to do exactly what you want, how you want, and where you want in one quick command. You can code and write at the speed of thought, without the GUI IDE getting in the way. That's even with the thing as is, out of the box. Once you discover plugins for additional functionality and vim scripting, its power as an editor attains the sublime.
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