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I was writing that yeah, I definitely meant that to be subjective to each own, but I can't lie to myself, I mean yeah, people surely prefer Vim to whatever alte
by AbraKdabra 2y ago
I was writing that yeah, I definitely meant that to be subjective to each own, but I can't lie to myself, I mean yeah, people surely prefer Vim to whatever alternative there's available out there that makes your life less miserable, but I'm 100% sure I take my mom or your mom or some person that doesn't have the bare minimum computer knowledge and put them in front of Vim and Nano and tell them "hey here's two text editors, write something, here's a keyboard" and they won't be able to do it in Vim because you some-fucking-how need to enter insert mode to be able to write in a fucking text editor, in nano (or [inset non vim-like text editor]) you at least press a key and something happens in the screen. Software needs to be intuitive and not against the user, just imagine Notepad being like Vim, the absolute madness no? There's a thin barrier that separates subjetivity from objectivity.
Just my 2 cents.
- School-Cotton 2y agoMy mom doesn’t read Hacker News. She’s not the target audience of this post. Why should we care whether she can use sc-im? It’s okay for powerful tools to have a learning curve.
- AbraKdabra 2y agoLearning curve != unnecessary complexity. Look me in the eyes and tell me that a text editor somehow needs a text input mode or a command to exit the application that's not a universal shortcut like Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D for GNU/Linux, the fact that the "how to exit Vim" meme is a reality is a perfect example of what I mean.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWell I don’t use vim, but I wouldn’t call it “unnecessary complexity”. Modal editing has actual benefits that some people like enough to make the tradeoff. Assuming it exists for no reason just because you don’t know what those benefits are, and that everyone else must just be stupid, is arrogance on your part.