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Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)


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It can't solve all your problems, or be a TUI version of your favorite IDE, or make you a better programmer, or land you that dream job in the Bay Area. It's a fine plain text editor that comes with minimal-to-good support for hundreds of languages out-of-the-box and can be extended with many plugins of varying quality if the built-in features and your own customizations don't cut it. Clipboard support, for example, is a pretty basic feature that is never built-in in default Vim and doesn't exist anyway in vi or Nvi.

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