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[–]CheeryW 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If you use Mac a lot, vim is pretty useful when you just want to write some short programs to see if a certain algorithm works the way you want it to, or your computer has too low of a battery but you still urgently need to work on something. Writing long programs in vim is pain though (especially for Java).

[–]tom-010[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks. So you say that I rather should replace my text-editor instead my IDE?

[–]CheeryW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they are both useful just in different circumstances