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Take a look at the current comment #3 on this page "As someone who is thinking about learning Vim, this diagram is severely daunting." Can you better understan
by sequoia 15y ago
Take a look at the current comment #3 on this page "As someone who is thinking about learning Vim, this diagram is severely daunting." Can you better understand the challenge now to making such a diagram & choosing what to include or leave out? To a beginner it looks impossibly complicated, to a power user it looks anemic.
>hardly any of the :commands, and only a very vague box saying "operator" for a large class of actions and motions Vim users are constantly engaging in.
So what, include every single :command? What would even be the point of such a graphical; it would be impractically cluttered. Bear in mind a new user already considers the graphic too complicated: by adding in all the :commands and operators, you just drove away the next tier of beginners. :p
My points are a) it's difficult to make such a graphic representation of vim modes and transitions b) it is (imo) impossible to make such a graphic that is both easy enough for beginners and robust enough for crotchety power users. I think an all-things-to-all-people diagram would be useless to everyone.