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Must a programmer learn text editors like Emacs and Vim? How important are they?

I have been writing code so far in conventional text editors that come with the OS so far or use an IDE in some cases. I know there are some advanced text editors like Emacs and Vim available solely ...

asked Apr 17 '11 at 15:26

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