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> That being said, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off moving away from vim entirely That's a surprising sentence to read, as someone who's also used to vim (

> That being said, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off moving away from vim entirely That's a surprising sentence to read, as someone who's also used to vim (although I've moved from vim to emacs+evil and not the other way around). I have some gripes with my emacs+evil setup, just as I had some gripes with my vim (and then neovim) setup. But none of those gripes were related to the actual text editing, but rather making those tools behave like an IDE. For the modal text editing, after I got used to it, I have zero complaints, and I feel much more comfortable editing any sort of text/code that way. If I had to choose, I'd rather give up syntax highlighting than modal editing, because it has become so ingrained.

yodsanklai 4y ago
> That's a surprising sentence to read, as someone who's also used to vim Well, I feel modal editing is "comfortable", as in easy on the fingers. But overall, I'm also quite fluent with the mac os shortcuts. Maybe it's just a matter of learning the few things I don't know how to do without vim and I'd be equally happy. The added bonus would be to have a simplified set up that would work in every contexts where vim isn't available. That being said, it's not something I want to do actively as I'm happy with my set up, but just wondering if the benefit is real.
- deafpolygon 4y ago
  Even on windows, while there are some obvious editing benefits with Vim mode, there's so much you can do with modern shortcuts. VS Code is customizable as hell, and the mouse is still an invaluable tool. With a TKL keyboard, I have no issues reaching for it and then resting my hands back on my keyboard without looking down or searching for it.