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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's nonintuitive and could have been designed better from the outset, but it's not impossible or even difficult. Now can we fight about something meaningful?

vim and emacs are right there, people.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Emacs has a better file-manager and you can setup an extremely great latex-editor.

Also extensions don't randomly not work on bsd as much. There is even evil-mode and no-window option.

The only place vim wins at is that there is an optional and lightweight autcomplete with lsp support you can activate by pressing or in gvim during interactive mode.

And NOBODY uses it.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Vim has one critical advantage though:

I learned it first