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Separate cursor keys are much more intuitive indeed! But people who like Vim don't like it for its intuitiveness. Cursor keys aren't ergonomically located, swi
by mort96 3y ago
Separate cursor keys are much more intuitive indeed!
But people who like Vim don't like it for its intuitiveness. Cursor keys aren't ergonomically located, switching from touch typing to moving the cursor with cursor keys involves a massive hand movement compared to how frequently it's necessary. Using HJKL for movement fits extremely well together with touch typing, and the vim mode switching is more comfortable than moving the hand to the cursor keys.
Don't confuse "intuitive" with "ergonomic" or "efficient" or good". They're very often not the same thing.
- dmz73 3y agoThe problem with hjkl as cursor movement in vi is that it cannot be used in all modes so you still have to have and use actual cursor keys. Switching modes just to add a single character before last is annoying. Fixing a typo in filename when saving is impossible without cursor keys. If you have and use real cursor keys then having to remember and use hjkl is just not practical.
- fragmede 3y agoit's not practical to remember four things that are conveniently napped to home row?
- drbaba 3y agoIf I have a typo, I typically Ctrl-W to delete and retype the last word.
- mort96 3y agoMeh I find hitting esc or ^c much easier than moving my hand to the arrow keys and back. Also, many kind of typos can be fixed without entering insert mode! If there's an extra character, I delete it with dl. If a character should've been something else, I use 'r' followed by the letter it should have been. I agree that command mode is more annoying than necessary since it relies on cursor keys to move the cursor.