I understand people who use VIm for everything. I've recently come ack to it after a few years away.
It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech.
In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScript, Sass, CoffeeScript, PHP, and Ruby code. When I use VIm, I can use all of the shortcuts and things I've learned over the years to manipulate text. I know how to manage projects, find files, etc.
That's a huge advantage. Having to learn Eclipse to do Java or Visual Studio to do C# adds complexity cos you have to learn the tool and the language.
So yea, I totally get it. This goes for TextMate or Emacs too.
It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech.
In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScript, Sass, CoffeeScript, PHP, and Ruby code. When I use VIm, I can use all of the shortcuts and things I've learned over the years to manipulate text. I know how to manage projects, find files, etc.
That's a huge advantage. Having to learn Eclipse to do Java or Visual Studio to do C# adds complexity cos you have to learn the tool and the language.
So yea, I totally get it. This goes for TextMate or Emacs too.