Originally posted by uid313
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Vim is a poor substitute until you have enough skill with it to use many of its features quickly. Multiple copy-paste buffers, macros, macro recording, multiple-macro execution, whole file regex substitutions, selective line regex substitutions, multiple editing buffers, undo/redo, fast document navigation, easy ability to run terminal commands while you're editing, easy ability to run terminal commands and capture the output in one of your open buffers, free-form select and delete. And crucially, all of those things without taking your fingers off the home row keys.
Even then, I don't know Vim is worth the effort to learn unless you use ssh a lot. I do, so being able to work one things remotely with a tool that I can use almost as quickly as Atom is really handy.
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