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2 years ago I had a class where the lecturer was working in a visual ide. I'm not that good with vim, but it was painful to follow along. Half my time was spent

by ahi 15y ago

2 years ago I had a class where the lecturer was working in a visual ide. I'm not that good with vim, but it was painful to follow along. Half my time was spent waiting and watching him click around. 1 year ago I was teaching a class and had to give up vim. It was too quick for people to follow.

underwater 15y ago
Vim doesn't give many cues as to what commands are being issued. If (using the previous example) you yank three lines then passive observer has no idea that anything has happened. That would be confusing for anyone. I'm in my fourth week of vim after using Netbeans for years. I'm still waiting for these magical performance improvements. I think that good, consistent keyboard shortcuts are useful but completely ignoring the existence of modern GUIs and the mouse is just stubborn.