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Vim is actually worth it

This is neither an in-depth article about advanced vim features nor is it an ideology-inducing primer on why the oh-so-powerful god of editors is such a great monarch. This is just my experience discovering vim after using several different code editors, including Visual Studio Code, for the last 3 or 4 years.

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Yes. I need to learn how to use Vim more.

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