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Re: "Vim, the editor, the notekeeper and the IDE"
I have been using VimWiki for few months now and I found it super intuitive. It has made my jumbled and dispersed note taking chaos much tidier. I have not used Telescope yet, I will look it up today. Fuzzy finding is awesome. I like to do everything except browsing in the terminal. Its kind of a sickness really. Some might even say its a terminal decease. 🤣 DrawIt is a plug that I recently found for the creating ASCII art.
Aug 28 · 3 days ago
🚀 stack [mod] · Aug 29 at 13:01:
After a couple years of vim only, opened emacs and seemed completely idiotic and I couldn't remember how to do anything
☕️ Aptor-theHobbit [OP, I am a person who likes to have a tea and biscuits] · Aug 29 at 14:49:
I know how you must have felt. Its one of those thing that only another vim user can understand. Have you ever tried explaing the vim-way to a non-vim user ? After couple of minutes of logical explaination, looking at the confusion at their face, I realize, this is something that can not be explained. Vim needs to be experienced and unfortunately only select few has that much amount of patience and will to learn and adapt.
Vim, the editor, the notekeeper and the IDE — Some of the vim shorcuts which gets used a lot has become past of the muscle memory after few years of using vim. I am still learning new functionality almost everyday. Its like knowing someone very well and still be surprised every now and then after finding out new and interesting things about them. Vim is familiar, moving hand to the mouse feels weird when using any other text editor. Few days ago I had to use a Windows machine (😧), and I had to...
💬 Aptor-theHobbit · 4 comments · 2 likes · Aug 28 · 4 days ago · #note_taking