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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: I use a vim like editor which tackles Vim's greatest weakness: vis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess my point was not really clear then. I wanted to point out that vim's "command" mode is not optimal because when you use it, you'll use the substitute command 90% of the time. This might be more visible if you compare sam to ed or sed, which are not visual editors.

Of course vim's normal mode is better for the changes I listed, but I wanted to make a point about sam's commands being more powerful than vim's commands.

This is the whole point of this post: using vim with sam's command mode makes it a better editor !