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i'm a big fan of jetbrains, but this is a poorly written article.

> Here is a poignant example of Vim being overloaded.

i don't see how this is any different from opening every toolbar window in PyCharm and cluttering the interface.

> Nothing can replace Vim, but IdeaVim feels closer than any other editor’s attempts

emacs evil does the best emulation. IdeaVim fails at two of the most important emulation tasks: escape and undo.

i used webstorm for a while to do javascript/html, but once i got proficient with vim it wasn't even close. just like how people are going crazy with livereload and how it makes development awesome, that's how i feel with using vim. it does what i tell it to do NOW, not 3 seconds from now.




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