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Vim Finally Cleans Up
IDEs Editors Post #102 · source on Telegram

Vim Finally Cleans Up

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The image is a close-up photo of a clear plastic bottle of lemon-scented Vim cleaning product held in someone’s hand. The label prominently says "LEMON" and "Vim", with smaller multilingual text including "Allrengöringsmedel", "All-round rengjøringsmiddel", and "yleispuhdistaja", plus a small red badge with partially legible text about a shiny clean result. The humor is a visual pun for developers who read "Vim" as the famously modal text editor rather than a household cleaner. It lands because Vim jokes often revolve around power, friction, muscle memory, and editor tribalism, while this object literally promises to clean things up.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick It still cleans modal state faster than it cleans the argument about whether Esc should be Caps Lock.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    It still cleans modal state faster than it cleans the argument about whether Esc should be Caps Lock.

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