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   On Mon, 15 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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,   
      
   God was wise when he created the hjkl movement. I imagine that is what   
   he used, along with vim, when he created the world in 6 days. On the   
   7:th he was fsck:ing the filesystem.   
      
   > 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   
      
   You are strong with the force! I think my most often used moves are jumping   
   between buffers, working with sessions, running programs and pulling the   
   result into the text... Tue 16 Apr 2024 11:51:18 AM CEST, oh my god,   
   look at what just happened there with "!!". ;) Yanking, pasting, search   
   and replace, and my _all time favourite time saver_ recorded macros with   
   "q". They are amazing for quick text processing when we're talking up to   
   10s of thousands of lines or probably more.   
      
   > 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! ;-)   
      
   I'd imagine he still has his routine, happily counting his days until   
   retirement. ;)   
      
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