Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Why I use Vim in 2022" video.

  1. Emacs is great on Linux. I keep it running all the time. I also have the following alias defined: alias e='emacsclient -n' That way, in any terminal window, I can type e «filename» to immediately open that file in the running Emacs.
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  2. vim is the only family of editors with separate commands for inserting text before the current position versus after the current position. Normal editors (including the GUI ones) do their insertion at the current position.
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  3. A great environment for doing “scratchpad” programming is Jupyter. The notebook paradigm supports incremental cell execution with multiple lines of code per cell, and rich output with interactive GUI widgets as well. I have done several presentations using Jupyter notebooks, and they are also handy for publishing examples that users can not just passively view, but also actively interact with.
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