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I disagree that everyone should learn to use vi. It’s not a cost-effective investement in my opinion (nor is emacs, although there are some modes that might have changed my mind if I was heavily into the things they deal with). You spend months typing like a turtle. By the time you actually get up to a reasonable speed, you have used so many seconds, minutes and hours that you’d need some truly impressive productivity gains to make it worth it.
The folks at Xerox PARC actually experimented with this. They found out that the basic, mouse-based text editor saved very much in training costs, while actually being as fast as or faster than the traditional editors.
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— Slashdot reader
