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Alas, the emacs install base is fraction of vi/vim.
I am also surprised by this. What are you basing it on? For arbitrarily comparable online communities, it looks like emacs.stackexchange.com is twice as active as vi.stackexchange.com
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copy 10 lines from the current position into buffer q, go to the start of function jnk, copy 5 lines into buffer w, jump to line 10, paste contents of q, contents of w, and contents of q sequentially one after the other: "q10yy /jnk "w5yy 10G "qp "wp "qp now, go to the start of the document and indent the next 20 lines by 10 spaces: 0G .,+20s:^: : ok great, now find JUNK and replace 'a1' with 'A1' in the 15 lines tha…
> now find JUNK and replace 'a1' with 'A1' in the 15 lines that follow The real scenario is usually to replace, for example, in a function block. How do you do that? Counting function lines seems like a non-starter.
In my opinion, the best feature of Vi(m) is its ubiquity. Also, it is fast and reliable. That said, I never bothered learning many commands, only the very basic ones, I spend much more time thinking than typing anyway and I always felt the productivity gains to be marginal.
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> now find JUNK and replace 'a1' with 'A1' in the 15 lines that follow The real scenario is usually to replace, for example, in a function block. How do you do that? Counting function lines seems like a non-starter.
Highlighting the initial { of a function and then typing 'va}' ('v' for entering visual mode, and 'a}' moves to the matching close brace. Similar commands work the [], (), and pairs) selects the entire function body. From there, a regular s command will operate on the entire selected text.
I've been thinking of trying evil, but I don't really miss the modal editing as much as I thought I would, and it's been another five to ten years.
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One editor which used to be great at this is sam, which was explicitly designed to work across slow links, by being split into a frontend running locally, and a backend being run on the target host: http://sam.cat-v.org
An alternative to that is to run mosh and it will make assumptions about where the characters should be going.
Regarding the picture of the woman standing next to the pile of punch-cards which is, annoyingly, uncredited, I have found it credited in this article [1] as: > Programmer standing next to the SAGE computer's control program > Image courtesy the Computer History Museum and the MITRE Corporation [1] https://kiranbot.com/post/2016-07-27-punch-cards/
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copy 10 lines from the current position into buffer q, go to the start of function jnk, copy 5 lines into buffer w, jump to line 10, paste contents of q, contents of w, and contents of q sequentially one after the other: "q10yy /jnk "w5yy 10G "qp "wp "qp now, go to the start of the document and indent the next 20 lines by 10 spaces: 0G .,+20s:^: : ok great, now find JUNK and replace 'a1' with 'A1' in the 15 lines tha…
> now find JUNK and replace 'a1' with 'A1' in the 15 lines that follow The real scenario is usually to replace, for example, in a function block. How do you do that? Counting function lines seems like a non-starter.
I believe this is an area where treesitter can help, so I'm looking forward to Neovim's integration.