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My reasons for being a vim user a lot more practical than those I see on these "top 10 reasons for trying X": - In the long run, it's faster to learn and use a
by davidtgoldblatt 15y ago
My reasons for being a vim user a lot more practical than those I see on these "top 10 reasons for trying X":
- In the long run, it's faster to learn and use an "efficiency" editor, so I need to learn one of vim, emacs, notepad++, etc. The differences between these are probably negligible for a proficient user.
- Of these, only vim will be installed (or vi, which has a big enough overlap that it won't matter to me) on every system I'm going to need to use.
These are, incidentally, the same reasons I use QWERTY instead of Dvorak.
- singular 15y agoDvorak has actually been shown to really be no better than QWERTY - http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/3 http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/3
- OneWhoFrogs 15y agoYou're right about that, but Dvorak is much easier on the hands. The average distance travelled by your fingers is greatly reduced. (It looks like Colemak beats both, though: http://colemak.com/Compare. http://colemak.com/Compare.)
- zcid 15y agoI type Colemak 99% of the time, but the 1% I don't, it can be a really frustrating experience. It amazes me that 20 years of typing ability was forgotten almost entirely in a month.
- aerique 15y agoI used to use Dvorak at home and QWERTY at work (as to not annoy my co-workers) and switching between them was a non-issue.
- jcromartie 15y agoThere's a big exception to the "vim will be installed" rule: Windows.
- 2muchcoffeeman 15y agoAnd what windows installation comes with any dev tools by default? You are going to have to install a bunch of stuff anyway. Install Vim.