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I felt that way, too. One could argue that many modern GUI features are more of an excuse to use the mouse, as opposed to actually taking advantage of anything
by makecheck 17y ago
I felt that way, too. One could argue that many modern GUI features are more of an excuse to use the mouse, as opposed to actually taking advantage of anything that a mouse is good at.
Even text selection, which ought to be fast with a mouse, is slow; it's hard to precisely click the end points, and the target may require scrolling in order to make it clickable. When you can do something like "3dw<return>P" (move 3 words to beginning of next line) instantly, the mouse is almost never more efficient.
- stakent 17y agoFor me the main point is to make the learning curve less steep. One can use The Editor without cheat sheet or studying manual. Selecting text using keyboard: while moving cursor use the Shift key Luke. And maybe a little Control key. Using mouse? You can, but don't have to.
- mattdawson 17y agoYeah, but I can almost guarantee that anyone using Cream will think "How is this any better than <GUI editor of choice>?" In my opinion, the only way anyone new to vi is gonna be sold is by struggling through the learning curve. They'll have an "ah-ha" moment soon enough.