> Have you actually tried sitting in front of Emacs or vim for more than 30 minutes, to the clock?
Not the parent, but I've spent a significant amount of time with pure vim. I use vim bindings in everything from my web browser (vimium, vimperator) to my WM (i3 & kde vim navigation bindings), to my text editors & IDEs (atom, VS, sublime)
Despite all that, I still find using pure vim to be ineffective relative to just using Atom, Sublime, VS or whatever with vim bindings. I may have internalized the most basic navigational concepts, but the more advanced / esoteric shortcuts that are essential to use vim as an exclusive editor are still ones I need to look up - and that's not counting stuff specific to vim packages liked nerdtree.
At the end of the day I'm sure you could always argue that I should have practiced differently / better / more or whatever - but to what end? There are plenty of full featured text editors on all platforms that do everything I need. Why on earth should anyone force themselves through dedicated practice just to learn the intricacies of a 20 year old editor?
Not the parent, but I've spent a significant amount of time with pure vim. I use vim bindings in everything from my web browser (vimium, vimperator) to my WM (i3 & kde vim navigation bindings), to my text editors & IDEs (atom, VS, sublime)
Despite all that, I still find using pure vim to be ineffective relative to just using Atom, Sublime, VS or whatever with vim bindings. I may have internalized the most basic navigational concepts, but the more advanced / esoteric shortcuts that are essential to use vim as an exclusive editor are still ones I need to look up - and that's not counting stuff specific to vim packages liked nerdtree.
At the end of the day I'm sure you could always argue that I should have practiced differently / better / more or whatever - but to what end? There are plenty of full featured text editors on all platforms that do everything I need. Why on earth should anyone force themselves through dedicated practice just to learn the intricacies of a 20 year old editor?