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I used vim for 3 years until Sublime Text came out and found I get work done much faster with it. I used the jump feature (forgot what it's called, similar to A

I used vim for 3 years until Sublime Text came out and found I get work done much faster with it. I used the jump feature (forgot what it's called, similar to AceJump on emacs), position stacks, search commands, etc. I installed and learned NERDTree (that's the name) and a buffer management plugin, but they took hours to get used to while editing and many more hours to configure my .vimrc to be somewhat sane. ST came along, and with some plugins, I was able to migrate very smoothly and was introduced to some new editing methods, like multicursors and the wonderful Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down commands for moving lines. No more sequences of characters to perform a common task! If ST was open source, there would be no need for a competing GUI text editor IMO.

nextlevelwizard 9y ago
If you feel like remembering vim's commands is a chore then it is not for you. For me they are reaction, I don't even think about chaining then together to accomplish my task. As for plugins I do not see the need for NERDTree or buffer management. At least for me searching (:find for files and :b for buffers) works perfectly fine and I dare say better/faster than file tree navigation. Multicursor is fun, but it can be achieved with a plugin in vim also, but I'd just make a macro for it. Moving lines up and down can be easily done with dd and p, so I don't see the issue here either. >competing GUI text editor There might be your problem for me using vim with tmux makes my life so much simpler than using gVim or other GUI editors.
MarHoff 9y ago
You just made my day! Didn't knew Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down how can I've been coding without!