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Title: Text editors
Date: 10-03-2021
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Today is a light day, just a couple of hours spent attending lessons. In the
afternoon I'll have a healthy walk with my gf. This is a Wednesday that feels
like a Saturday - the calm before the storm.

Let's talk about text editor. It is common experience that Windows users know
nothing about text editing software. I'm not saying that MS Word is pure evil,
but when you get used to something you are subconsciously setting a standard.
And it doesn't matter if the quality of the software is good or not, if that
program is right for you. It's like a in imprinting. Proceeding further is not
taken for granted. 
The first time I had to use a non-visual text editor was a real pain. I don't
quite remember why I had to use it, but at that time it was a terrible
experience. I was lost - no copy/past, no button at all, no font choice. It
just seemed to me a bad piece of software. And I'm not talking about Vim, but
nano.
By the way, over time, I got used to it. Without even realizing it I started
noticing some negative aspects of visual editors like Libre/Open/MS Office: the
damn slowness and the huge size of the generated files. While the second issue
wasn't a big deal, the first one was for real.
The real epiphany took place when I started coding. I read about Vim in a
linux-specialized newspaper during a hot summer. So I started playing with it -
yes I got stuck trying to exit. Once again it took me a while before I started
appreciating its potential. The learning curve was very steep, but this effort
has come in handy when I had to write lines of code on a remote server.
At the moment Vim has become my essential editor, which I cannot do without.
Its minimalism makes it fast and customizable like no other rival. Some plugins
(nerdtree, taglist, airline, syntastic) make it a complete development
environment. I firmly believe that I'll always choose Vim over Visual Studio.
One more thing: gruvbox is the theme you are looking for.

No words have been dedicated to Vim's historical rival - which I don't mention
anyway - since the purpose of these few lines is not to prove which text editor
is the best one. I just wanted to offer a point of view: software development
can be done withouth a heavy and unhandy IDE. Give it a try.