Music of #Vim : The old text editor survived #GUI to reincarnate in the age of #AI

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This episode explores the evolution of Vim from a historical artifact of limited hardware into a sophisticated linguistic system for text manipulation. By treating the keyboard as a modal control surface rather than a mere typewriter, Vim allows practitioners to achieve a flow state where the interface becomes a seamless extension of the mind, much like a musical instrument. The source details how this grammar of "verbs" and "nouns" enables surgical precision and efficiency, leading to a "Vim-ified" ecosystem of browsers, file managers, and spreadsheets. Ultimately, the author argues that as generative AI shifts the...