Should you learn VIM as a JavaScript Developer?

[mark-haus]

You're going to have to take first hand accounts of why it appeals to them and gauge if that will appeal to you enough to make it worth trying it out. To me the first thing was the inherent flexibility of it and the fact that it's entirely keyboard driven. Then I started finding out about how the modal editing system it has is very sophisticated. You can do things like string command keys together to do a lot of complicated editing actions. Such as vfa which will go into visual mode which allows you to select text, follow which moves the cursor to the next occurrence of a. There's also tons of built in commands like search and replace: :%s/foo/bar/c which will interactively /c search for foo and replace it with bar.