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>Emacs+Evil is the next Vim.

Actually, Vim is the next Vim--it only seems to get better and better.

After switching to Vim full-time about two years ago, I recently tackled exporting the text from a 10-year old PDF to markup it up using AsciiDoc[1] so I can output HTML and ePub.

It’s over 37,000 words but I was amazed how easily I was able to jump anywhere on the screen with just a few keystrokes fix all of the little things that need to be fixed in a text file.

And because editing paragraphs of text is somewhat different than what I normally do (writing HTML and CSS), it was pretty cool being able to leverage the composability[2] of Vim and how seamlessly that knowledge works in new contexts.

[1]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html [2]: https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385...



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