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This is normally true, except that in order to be good at your job as a developer, you have to be good with your tools. It helps that vim is installed by defau
by rocky1138 10y ago
This is normally true, except that in order to be good at your job as a developer, you have to be good with your tools.
It helps that vim is installed by default in every modern OS.
- oblio 10y agoBut in reality you'd constrain yourself to using Vim just because it is the lowest common denominator (i.e. it is available - vi - in Sun OS 5.2 & co). Otherwise, if it's a really modern OS, there's a plethora of modern, fast, cross-platform editors that follow CUA conventions.
- Spivak 10y agoRight, but a common characteristic of modern editors and IDEs is that they attempt to be uncontroversial and follow the 'intuitive' keybindings because they're what people are used to from word processors. These editors have sparked a holy war and a cult following not just because they're powerful, but because they're opinionated. They prefer efficiency and customization over familiarity. I will freely admit that there's only only so many of those programs that I can handle in my life, but my text editor is one so frequently used that it's worth the investment.