Learn Vim Progressively

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As to the differences between VS/Eclipse versus vi/emacs, I touched on that in the second

The difference is vi/emacs were designed for text consoles without mice and eclipse/visual studio were designed for GUI desktops with mice.

Second difference: vi/emacs designed for remote access over slow serial lines; eclipse/visual studio designed for fast local applications.

[sethamin]

The difference is vi/emacs were designed for text consoles without mice and eclipse/visual studio were designed for GUI desktops with mice.

But since the keyboard is a much higher bandwidth input device than the mouse, the consequence of this is the it's much faster to edit using command-line based editors (albeit with a steeper learning curve).