Marshall McLuhan and Vim

We are the sex organs of the machines...

Author's note: the names have all changed, the stories are real. I use the term "Vim" throughout the essay to refer to both "Vim" and "Neovim".

A cigarette dangled precariously on the edge of Ron's lower lip. A moment of repose before another machine gun flurry of keystrokes. Change line, type, rename function, move function closure to end of page, jump …