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I’ve come to the conclusion, people who use vim just continue to do so out of a stubborn sense of pride for finally learning the key combinations.
When you only need to hammer a nail every once in a while, any hammer will do. When you're a roofer, you better have a roofing hammer.
If you don't spend your life in a terminal and just need to edit a file, vim isn't for you. If you want to learn complex strings of arcane wizardry to not only make your life easier but amaze your underlings, use vim.
no, modal text editors are just nicer to use
There is no sense of pride. Every text/code editor has key combinations that many users will learn eventually. Vim has easier key bindings.
What do you mean? The vim users know their key combinations pretty well, that's kind of the point of vim.
Somehow it seems this would apply to any linux user
It's not pride, it's just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.
But it's really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text
I mean, yeah, kind of. In the same way pilots fly planes out of a stubborn sense of pride for knowing what all the flight deck controls do.
I just use vi
Is that stupid? It's all I ever bothered to learn, hasn't failed me yet. Now I'm not some big time linux guru but I'm a sysadmin and regularly find myself elbow deep in a CLI for stuff.
I honestly learned it just because I hated having to change hand position to use a mouse.
Can you use a mouse in nano? I always just use the arrow keys, or page up/down and home/end
I mostly use vim but I barely use the jkl; to navigate the document.
Even if you use arrows, you still have to reposition your hand.
nano -m <file>orset mousein your nanorcAh sorry, I meant using Vim in a GUI program. I wanted something with the flexibility of a mouse (quick navigation, context menu actions, etc.) without using a mouse. Using just the arrow keys, shift highlighting, etc. is just too slow when writing lots of text, and it doesn't follow the natural position of typing.
It's just convenient that it's pre-installed on many servers.
So I can use it now everywhere with my stubborn sense of pride for finally learning the key combinations.
In my case it's not a sense of pride. I can't use anything other than Vim because I keep accidentally putting random incantations into my word documents.
"There once was a dduuuZQ:q!"
haha, same. do you use vimium as well?
That extension is actually pretty cool. There is also tridactyl and a browser that was made with vim in mind, but a browser and a text editor are too different for many things to translate.
thanks for sharing, I'll try it on my work machine
Ya know, I might throw that on to my browser but I doubt I'd actually use it much. I only really use my browser for research; notes, music, and most of my work is done in the terminal. Being able to swap tabs faster by not having to cycle could be useful, but other than that I find the mouse to be a pretty rapid way of navigating unfamiliar pages
in my case, my hand hurts if I use mouse(or a mobile phone) for some time. using
j/kfor scrolling and clicking links viafhelp me a lot.I am faster, more comfortable, and more productive in Vim. I use the same keybindings in all my editors and IDEs. It's okay for people to have different preferences.
That's funny, I feel the same way about Excel users.