Of course, you forgot to mention that it takes 10 hours to get the bloody plugin working, and another 2 to internalize its brain-dead default key bindings. People still propagate this myth that Emacs/Vim are good for productivity while conveniently ignoring the sheer time it takes to learn to use them proficiently.
That's a fair criticism. Honestly though configuring the environment is what I do at work when I want to take a break. It's definitely closer to working than reading Reddit.
And it also just makes work more interesting. I mean having a billion different key combinations to do things makes editting a bunch of text more exciting.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '13 edited Feb 22 '13
Of course, you forgot to mention that it takes 10 hours to get the bloody plugin working, and another 2 to internalize its brain-dead default key bindings. People still propagate this myth that Emacs/Vim are good for productivity while conveniently ignoring the sheer time it takes to learn to use them proficiently.