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compiler_queen | 1 year ago

Anyone who doesn't use Vim is just evil in my eyes, I mean, come on! It's the best thing ever.

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cassepipe|1 year ago

Reaching for the escape key with your left pinkie while trying to keep your fingers on the home row hundreds of times a day in order not to have to dislocate your right pinkie to reach the arrows is is the idea of the century

Snark apart, praising vim without mentioning escape key remapping is criminal imho

hollasch|1 year ago

To each their own, but to me the only key easier to hit than the Escape key is the space bar, and returning to the home row is like a 20ms move. On the other hand, if you're actually using control keys in the (now standard) lower left and lower positions, then we're just on different planets. :)

lenkite|1 year ago

I heard that IBM got the PC keyboard positioning wrong. You can remap this in both macOS and Windows and Linux so its not a big deal anymore. Use Esc<->Capslock and have a gentle vim/neovim existence.

camgunz|1 year ago

I don't remap; I use ^[.

iLemming|1 year ago

> Anyone who doesn't use Vim is just evil in my eye

Hehe. Evil users are vimmers. Evil stands for - Extensible vi layer for Emacs. Try Emacs for a while, and you may realize - Emacs can vim better than Neovim.