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Out of curiosity, why did you choose to give a kid a modal editor?
by evincarofautumn 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you choose to give a kid a modal editor?
- mahmud 15y agoit's a sensible choice to start him with Vi and leave Emacs for when he is a man~
- jacobr 15y agoI didn't really choose, I was busy coding one day and his mom had to do something quick, so I had him in my lap. He wanted to type like I did, so I just opened a split in Vim and let him type a few characters, he could barely press down a key anyway. When he later wanted to go to the computer even when I wasn't sitting there, I just continued in Vim. I'll probably switch to something else now that's he's actually starting to understand the connection between the monitor and the keyboard better. Previously he mostly liked right-clicking with the mouse as it gave a big box on the screen..