I’m probably switching back to Vim. Not for everything, mind you, but I’ve found that my fingers miss the speed of Vim’s keystrokes. Perhaps it’s possible to be as fast in TextMate, but it’s been a while now and I still feel like I’m slugging through quicksand. And yet TextMate is pretty darn cool, and I like it a lot. I suspect I’ll go back and forth. There’s nothing quite like the buzz I get from whipping through code at the speed of light in Vim. ;)

Where does Vim fall short? My experience has been that it didn’t used to integrate well with other Mac apps (clipboard stuff), and Unicode support wasn’t all that great. It seems to work fine with the clipboard, and apparently Unicode is up to par as well (but I haven’t tested it yet). My bet is that some of the small frustrations I ran into with Vim back a few months ago were all configurable — meaning, I could’ve gotten what I wanted by changing the configuration.

Not that I can see the future, of course :), but I think I’ll probably end up using Vim for everything except perhaps Rails coding and stuff involving Unicode. We’ll see…

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