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kleiba 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

There's a reason Emacs and vi have been around for decades. They're good.

ivanjermakov 5 months ago [–]

Maybe not good, but tenacious. Once you have a muscle memory, it's rarely worth the effort to switch.

Narishma 5 months ago | [–]

No, they're good. Otherwise new people wouldn't be learning and using them.

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