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How many 10+ year veterans of the software industry are actually only limited by their typing speed and need to maximise it with vim? I do kinda get the feelin
by theshrike79 2y ago
How many 10+ year veterans of the software industry are actually only limited by their typing speed and need to maximise it with vim?
I do kinda get the feeling you get when you can transfer your thoughts to screen as efficiently as possible.
But really, if your typing speed is the only thing holding you back when coding, it's a bit suspicious to me.
- fingerlocks 2y agoUsing vim to improve typing speed is an age old misconception, bordering on straw-man. The real appeal is the flexibility to script and customize a general purpose editor and make it bend to your will. For example, make a key binding that moves between only functions that have a particular signature. Or a shortcut that takes heap snapshots, filters and format the output to your liking, and have it displayed alongside the source file with the suspected memory leak your hunting. Otherwise no I still can’t get used to using j and k to move up and down even after a decade of vim.