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I get that ViM is really powerful, so is Emacs and the like, however I'd guess a large part of going into the trouble of building your own text editor would be to learn about the algorithms and data structures used, something you can't do by writing ViM configuration files.



Good point - if someone is after that, then what I wrote isn't the best way to achieve this




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