This is the sixth part of this series to learn Vim from the ground up:

You’re now in your garden, sitting down in your favorite chair, contemplating a fabulous table full of the tastiest food. While delighted by your fantastic breakfast, a fresh breeze refresh your warm skin in this hot summer day. You hear the little birds singing in unison. The vivid smell of the young grass and the delicate and subtle aroma of your tea fill your nostrils. Everything is in perfect harmony; all your annoyances, problems, or negative thoughts are far away from this pure state of bliss.

“We need to stop everything!” shout out Dave, your colleague developer, during a meeting with the stakeholders of BigBuckEcommerce, the company you work for. “Our application is a legacy system. We need to rewrite the whole thing before it’s too late! It will explode! We can’t manage this beast any longer!”

If I had received a coin each time the term “legacy” was thrown in a discussion about software development, I would write this article from a private island in my personal mansion. We all use these words as if they were widely known and accepted concepts, using them as arguments to take action.

This article is the fifth of the series aimed to teach Vim from the ground up:

Can you picture an adventurer, going deeper and deeper into a mysterious cave, knowing what’s waiting for her (mostly rocks and bats) but at the same time wishing to be surprised by some rare gems and abandoned treasures?

This article is part of a series about Zsh:

“The completion offered by Zsh is great, but could it be better? Why not trying to understand how it works? I could then configure it for my own needs!”

What are the oldest and most complex tools we use every day, source of the biggest challenges we have to face in our daily work?

Our brain and our natural language.

We all had the pleasure to implement the wrong features, bring complex solutions, and create bugs because of miscommunication. Communication will always be flawed because it’s imperfect. But we can’t really “be” in the mind of the other, so it’s the best tool we have to collaborate. In that regard, active listening can help us get better.