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If you're a programmer you have lots of time and motivation to learn your tools. Even IDE users learn the hotkeys, and they're no easier to learn than vim comma
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
If you're a programmer you have lots of time and motivation to learn your tools. Even IDE users learn the hotkeys, and they're no easier to learn than vim commands.
- gknoy 13y agoI think they are easier for most people. We've been conditioned to using C-C, C-X, C-V, etc for editing, with C-arrow for faster movement, etc, from apps like Word for many years, so that is already relatively familiar. So, learning editor shortcuts are often just layered on top of that. In contrast, using emacs (which I have likely outed myself as a user of, via my above notation ;)) or vi require you to be more mindful (at first) of what you are doing while editing text. Both tools are likely to be frustrating if you don't think of things in a way that matches the worldview that each was built with.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoIf I'm not mistaken, C-C, C-X, C-V came from windows, or maybe DOS. A lot of Unix editors are older than that, so you can't blame them for not using those. To be a programmer, you have to learn a programming language. Learning an editor is easier than that. A lot of programmers probably don't invest the time to learn an editor, but it not much time in the long run, and it's worth learning your tools.