My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text
I find articles like this interesting, mainly because I went through a similar transition (IDE =&gt; Sublime =&gt; vim). However, my story stopped at vim.<p>For this particular article, I think what strikes me as odd is:<p>&gt; use[ing] the keyboard is slower for some selection tasks like selecting a range of text far from the cursor than the mouse is<p>This is...precisely the opposite of my experience. I find navigation and selection to be the most powerful aspects of vim. I never felt like I &quot;got&quot; vim <i>until</i> I understood this, in fact. I constantly questioned if the investment of time was worth it. That being said, if you don&#x27;t grok this I could see how it would be defeating. You eventually reach a point where you forget the mouse is even an option though.<p>My only other comment is in regard to his mention of issues with tabs. I&#x27;m curious what we were doing so differently, because that&#x27;s never once been a problem for me, even in early days (however I could see how it would be super annoying).<p>I&#x27;m of the mind that it doesn&#x27;t matter what you use as long as you&#x27;re being productive, but it&#x27;s also neat to see what path other people walk down.