I often tried to learn the great Emacs editor/IDE/operating system. The last time I tried it, I spent some time getting comfortable with it until I wanted to customize my .emacs file.

That was the point when I entered vi .emacs. As soon as I realized what I’ve done, I knew that Vim has won me over a long time ago.

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Somewhere around 2004 Tim O’Reilly gave a talk and asked the attendees if they still use bookmarks or not.

The majority said they use bookmarks, and Tim O’Reilly was a bit surprised because he doesn’t use bookmarks anymore. He checks Google or some other search engine to find the stuff again.

Years after the talk I finally got what he meant.

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