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IMO the benefits are huge, I'm not on Dvorak, partly because I'm on Vim (there is a remapping scheme for Vim with Dvorak users). One thing I love about Vim is
by lando2319 9y ago
IMO the benefits are huge, I'm not on Dvorak, partly because I'm on Vim (there is a remapping scheme for Vim with Dvorak users).
One thing I love about Vim is not only do you never need the mouse, you don't even need the arrow keys, everything is designed around keeping your fingers on the homerow.
Vim is bigger than just a text editor, it's a concept.
Sure there is a learning curve, but Vim is on a whole other level, it utilizes text objects, which help me see text as a series of objects to be manipulated rather than text that I'm traversing.
I'm a huge fan of Vim, so much so I have a hackernews Vim bot on twitter which is how I found this post.
So yeah, huge benefits, IMO.
https://twitter.com/HN_Vimmy_Bot https://twitter.com/HN_Vimmy_Bot
- aquova 9y agoAs a recent Vim user, I used to roll my eyes at people who were so dedicated to it, but I'm quickly coming around. There are still some quirks I haven't gotten used to however, the biggest one being the emphasis on keeping your fingers on the homerow, but at the same time having a heavy reliance on the Esc key, which breaks the homerow policy.
- lando2319 9y agoI highly recommend remapping 'jk' to escape, it's great cause if you are already escaped thus in Normal mode, jk just goes down and up a line. "jj" is also one I see that gets used a lot. Edit: `inoremap jk <esc>`
- i_dont_know_ 9y agoChecking out some of the articles in your feed now... thanks!