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parastiyesterday at 8:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

My vim muscle memory has paid off more for me than my emacs muscle memory. Emacs was the better editor, though. Anything that doesn't have Vimscript is an automatic winner IMO.


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kstrauseryesterday at 11:16 PM

I use ^a to go to the beginning of a line and ^e to go to the end nearly everywhere. Many Emacs keystrokes are so pervasive that they're not often thought of as Emacs keystrokes.

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kqrtoday at 4:40 AM

Evil is a tried-and-true Vim implementation that doesn't use Vimscript!