Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
(and, after fifteen years of vi, and now 25 of emacs, i guess
i'll skip
the spacemacs experience. :)
Similar past for me as well. I used vi from early/mid 80x until
mid 90s
and then switched to Emacs and used standard Emacs bindings
until a
couple of years ago, then decided to give spacemacs a go.
I realised when I did I had very much missed the vi modal
editing
approach. I know it isn't for everyone, but I find using it
pushes my
productivity through the roof. I always tried to use keyboard
navigation
and avoid the mouse. Being able to use simple keys rather than
complex
bindings involving ctl, alt, shift, is just so much faster and
easier on
my aging and stiffining fingers, I think I'm now a devout member
of the
evil-mode cult.