From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-15, D  wrote:   
      
   >> I cherish my vim crush too. ;-)   
   >   
   > Yes, but for me the beauty is that vim transformed a soul   
   > crushing excel consulting job at a global corporation   
   > into some level of vim mastery which has benefitted me   
   > for several decades.   
      
   I will admit that I think a huge part of my vim love has to   
   do with the joy of using it, in contrast to its life/work   
   transformative power - which I don't deny. I can't imagine   
   any game, for example, rivaling hjkl cursor movement,   
   marking and jumping back to places in a file, single and   
   multiple line captures (sometimes "copy", sometimes "cut"),   
   pasting those captures, running external scripts against   
   the whole file or just a portion (I so adore being able   
   to apply such to a paragraph without having to specify   
   line numbers (put cursor at beginning of paragraph, then   
   !}script-name), jumping the cursor between pairs of   
   curly braces, writing into alternate files while editing   
   to "save aside" a potential keeper version yet continue on   
   with the editing, and so much more not coming to mind this   
   moment. All with fingers poised in their absolute favorite   
   place (which is saying a lot for a guy ): standard   
   typing home row position (or whatever it's called...)!   
      
   > I still wonder what happened to the guy there who had as   
   > his target to not get assigned to a project for as long   
   > as humanly possible. When I started, he'd been unassigned   
   > for 2 years I think, and when I left 10 months later he   
   > still as unassigned.   
   >   
   > His routine was... come to the office at 09:30, chat a   
   > bit with colleagues and have a coffee until 10:30, then   
   > space out until 12:00, go for lunch, back at 13:30 (after   
   > a 30 minute visit to the hifi-shop around the corner),   
   > a coffee + chat until 14:30, space out until 16:15, leave   
   > for the day.   
   >   
   > He managed that routine for 2 years and 10 months at a   
   > global consulting company. His survival skills and general   
   > psychological make up were extremely fascinating!   
      
   You best find that guy before his absence kills you! ;-)   
      
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