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> Compare this to spamming down arrow 30 times and then right arrow 80 times to get to a character in your editor Or uses the mouse to get there. I don’t get t
by hartator 8y ago
> Compare this to spamming down arrow 30 times and then right arrow 80 times to get to a character in your editor
Or uses the mouse to get there. I don’t get that part of vim. Weirdly I do like Vim. The thing is you see something in sublime, you just click on it and you there. You don’t have to solve some vim puzzles to get the cursor on the right spot.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoGP isn't talking (just) about jumping between files or function definition. The difference between Vim and regular IDEs is this: in Vim, you notice an arbitrary piece of code on your screen, tap tap, you're there, tap tap, you've transposed it with another piece of code somewhere else in the file, tap tap, you're in another file, tap tap, you're back in the previous file, except it now contains half of the code from that other file, tap tap, now with proper namespacing. All done at the speed of thought - an experienced Vim/Emacs user thinks in semantic steps, not shortcuts. In regular keyboard+mouse approach, you either do operations that perfectly align with automated refactoring capabilities, or just have to click a lot.