{"id":693,"date":"2011-04-14T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2011-04-13T23:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:39:29","slug":"nice-piece-on-using-vim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/nice-piece-on-using-vim\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Piece on Using Vim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this nice <a href=\"http:\/\/shapeshed.com\/journal\/vim-eighteen-months-on\/\">reflection on the vim editor<\/a> by someone who switched 18 months ago. In my own case, it was about 18 years. I&#8217;d been an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/E\/EMACS.html\">emacs<\/a> user forever, and it was just killing me (carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, and who-knows-what). So I made the switch to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/V\/vi.html\">vi<\/a><\/em> (and, soon enough, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/\">vim<\/a><\/em>). It took awhile to get used to modes, but the alternative is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twister_(game)\">Twister<\/a> with my ring and pinky fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this nice reflection on the vim editor by someone who switched 18 months ago. In my own case, it was about 18 years. I&#8217;d been an emacs user forever, and it was just killing me (carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, and who-knows-what). So I made the switch to vi (and, soon enough, vim). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[305,301,303,302,304,200,223],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology","tag-carpal","tag-editors","tag-ide","tag-programming-2","tag-rsi-2","tag-ruby-2","tag-vim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}