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As a vimer, this is absolutely true. Learning is repetition, not just reading. And we don’t have time to learn something we rarely use.

For the same reason I can never even think of writing in ahk, awk, bash, scss and other arcane syntaxes without examples and snippets. Because the usage is occasional.

And I definitely hit Esc and lost my input too many times. Of course the apps that don’t ask for Esc confirmation are to blame, but they exist.



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