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I'm personally not fond of having a command mode separate from a typing mode. As someone who learned to touch type (on a typewriter) I don't always look at the
by LanceH 4y ago
I'm personally not fond of having a command mode separate from a typing mode. As someone who learned to touch type (on a typewriter) I don't always look at the screen. In vi, if you're typing away while in command mode, all sorts of things can go wrong.
The one sin I can't forgive, though, is that he movement keys aren't the same as the home row keys. jkl; would have been so much better. Everything else I'm willing to chalk up to preference -- I prefer the chording of emacs, but I can understand it's not for everyone. To me it feels like vi was written for hunt and peck typists.
- galangalalgol 4y agojkl; does make sense, I may try remapping that, though I don't really think about it anymore. I remap jj to esc so I don't have to leave the home row. I dont have to look at the screen unless I'm trying to build a regex for something. I do remember being in the wrong mode a couple times and doing odd things. My only problem with the chording is that my pinky gets tired way faster than my other fingers.
- LanceH 4y agoI would remap, but the major reason for using vi is that I'm hopping onto another machine or docker instance -- then my problem would become propagating my .vimrc file everywhere. So I keep my vi knowledge to plain vanilla on purpose, generally. I may be more suited to chording just because I have very large hands and will use either pinky, or the palm of my hand to hit the control on either side.