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I thought the whole point of using vim was having access to powerful, mnemonics and highly composable commands to edit text efficiently… Guess I was wrong.

• geezerjay 8y ago
  Composable, yes, as in compose movements with commands. The thing is, that only works if the user is able to understand what a movement does and know exactly where the cursor ends up after a command. With non-monospace fonts that is not possible, as users have no clear idea where the cursor will end up after, say, pressing j or k. That's the point.
  • ealhad 8y ago
    Do you often use j or k? I know I don't. Text objects (word, paragraph, brackets, quotes, sentence, etc) usually do everything I need.
    • geezerjay 8y ago
      > Do you often use j or k? Yes, extensively. I mean jk let users navigate between adjacent statements. That's a pretty basic usecase. In fact, they are used more often than i or l as word movements express intent more clearly than moving a character at a time.
    • ur-whale 8y ago
      >Do you often use j or k All the time. All the more so because I code using vertical alignments.