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I'd happily race using vim against anyone using any pointer device. Your very fast 0.1s accumulates over the day, the week, the year. Versus never moving your h

• afiori 5y ago
  trackpads are the keyboard, on ThinkPad laptop for example you can use it entirely with only your thumbs.
  • stnmtn 5y ago
    How do you handle having to change a function's parameters, for instance? In vim, you just have your cursor inside the (...) and do `ci)`, which is (c)hange (i)nside `(, which instantly deletes all the test inside the (...) and you can type that stuff out easily For a trackpad, don't you have to manually select all that text, hit delete, then start typing again? Or is there a better way I'm not thinking of
    • rendall 5y ago
      So. Many. Shortcuts. And, if you use it as an extension to your IDE, say for VSCode, you can still use your pointer. Delete to line's end: d$ Delete to next blank line: d] Replace current character: r Surround the next 3 words with quotes: ys3w" (non standard, but out-of-the-box on VSCode) On and on
      • stnmtn 5y ago
        Yep, using Vim in VSCode is just about everything I could ever want