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The Editor War, and Why It's Silly
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# The Editor War
## Overview of common editors
- Basic: Sublime, Atom, Textmate
- The Modal Editor
## History of the Editor War
- Emacs vs Vi
- Strengths v Weaknesses
- Why modal is great
- Manipulating text vs writing
- 'Emacs Pinky"
## Why it's all so dumb
- Vim mode
- Certain languages = certain editors
- Ruby is about ease, not speed
## That said...
- Use whatever you're comfortable with, but:
- Modal commands are worth the time to learn
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