Quick tech-tools thread, because I probably won't have time to write this down fully soon. Re: Vim. A few years ago I experimented with both Vim and Emacs. I wound up going back to my previous tools. [1/N]
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Relatedly, Vim keybindings in a more recent IDE is, I suspect, a good happy medium for a lot of people. And, as with the point above, this is something that you might feel pressure not to do if you're learning Vim and (thus) reading lots of documentation from Vim purists. [6/N]
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Also, this isn't at all original to me, but it's quite striking: thinking in terms of a distinction between command and insert mode has changed, for the better, the way I think about writing (and not just writing code). [7/N]
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Alternatively phrased: If you're a writer, it's nice to make more explicit to yourself how much metaphysics is encoded in traditional methods of word processing. [8/N]
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Finally, the case of writing software (IDEs and so on) is a neat case study in technological progress. I'd love to read more about it if anyone has suggestions. [9/9]
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