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Many years ago, when I was working on thousands of customer VMs across the globe, that all only had (and ) installed, I changed my standard editor from to vim.

Took some time to get used, but after some days muscle memory vanished and I have grown to love vim ever since. Formatting long lines in markdown with visual selection and line-length set via editorconfig is really nice...

Now, as I no longer have to log in on so many other machines and mostly work with git on my work laptop, I have decided to challenge myself again. And I changed my default editor back to emacs (the nox variant, and currently without a server running).

It really takes getting used to it again and I keep looking into the emacswiki to find out, how I did all the stuff back then in emacs.

Probably later this year I will challenge myself again and try out the editor. But until I want to get some stuff done first...

@johanneskastl Why not use both in parallel like I do? Simple editing in vim, all the rest in Emacs. 😉

Johannes Kastl

@publicvoit I want to use emacs again. So I need to override the muscle memory, that wants to do everything in vim. By setting the EDITOR variable (and the respective setting in ~/.gitconfig etc.) I at least get emacs automatically.

Now I only need to train my brain to not type vim each time I want to open a file...

But of course, the long term goal is to still be able to use both...