077 - Learning vim with Potatowire

Potatowire finally leaves the crib, joining Gabe and Erik to discuss command-line text editing with vim. We learn how he started, why he uses a forty-year old text editor, and some cool things you can do when your hands never have to leave the keyboard.

This is weird

This is a strange episode for me. Usually I am the guy who comments from
outside the conversation, and I am often the one who stitches the links and
asides together with narrative. In this case Gabe and Erik asked me to come
into the conversation as it happened, rather than afterwards.

This also meant that I had to listen to my own recorded voice, which I usually
try to avoid. Anyway, what follows is a long discussion about Vim and the
terminal. I am very strong proponent about Vim, but I try not to browbeat
people about it, since I know that it works best for me, and not necessarily
for everyone else. Though it should be. Damn it, that slipped out.

Also, if it seems like my attention occa