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blackpill0w | 2 years ago

>The Vim commands are: ...

You forgot the time you spend learning a counterintuitive way to edit text. The microscopic time you gain while editing text is nothing in comparison to that.

>just what to edit as the language is very intuitive once you got it down.

Everything can become intuitive when you spend hours and hours learning it. The question is whether it's worth it.

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skydhash|2 years ago

I've been writing code for more than a decade almost every day. The pros for learning vim is not about writing code fast, it's about streamlining it. I do not want what I'm doing interrupted by moving the cursor with arrows keys or using the mouse. That's why people put hours into configuring their emacs setups. Not for speed, but to resolve annoyances.

blackpill0w|2 years ago

> I do not want what I'm doing interrupted by moving the cursor with arrows keys

Why exactly? That's just pressing a button, like any vim command.