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>You spent more time configuring Vim and Emacs than they saved you.

Yeah, ten years ago. Now I just use the damn thing and occasionally update my plugins.

At this point, I can hardly use nano, the vim bindings are so deep in my brain.



Doom kept breaking, spacemacs is just kinda annoying, and I don’t wanna go through doing my own from scratch again. I basically only use emacs for my couple literate configs because I haven’t found an equal alternative

That’s why I’ve been checking out zed/helix/kakoune lately. Zed to replace VSCode which feels bloated and the other two to replace vim. The keybindings are more intuitive to me and having auto complete of commands out of the box with a full menu showing shortcuts saved me a lot of frustration from day 0




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