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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 month ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Draegur@lemm.ee 69 points 1 month ago (24 children)

    If I wanted to hear about what's good about Vim, should I:

    a) ask what's good about vim

    -OR-

    b) assert blindly that there is nothing good about vim so fanboys will come crawling out of the walls tripping over each other to tell me how I'm wrong?

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Doesn't matter we will tell you either way.

    • Instead of simply shortcuts, vim uses "chords". Every new shortcut I learn can be combined intuitively* with all the other shortcuts I know.
    • Because of this there's no faster way to edit files than Vim in the hands of an experienced user.
    • this let's me spend almost no time editing code, freeing up the rest of my time for swearing at piss poor documentation.

    * I use "intuitively" here in a way that not merely stretches, but outright abuses the definition of the word.

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    It's intuitive if your previous editor was ed(1) and you're using an ADM-3A-like keyboard.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

    It's intuitive if your previous editor was ed(1) and you're using an ADM-3A-like keyboard.

    Exactly! Ha!

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