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- disable arrow keys - force yourself ... - force yourself ... This strikes me as an attitude that drives people away from Vim. Maybe it depends on individ

- disable arrow keys - force yourself ... - force yourself ... This strikes me as an attitude that drives people away from Vim. Maybe it depends on individual differences in learning style, but I would say the exact opposite. Embrace the arrow keys! And all else that is familiar. The moment you start with Vim you're diving in the deep end and productivity will take a plunge. At least training wheels like the arrow keys can help you stay productive and keep using it for long enough until you cross over the productivity threshold (where you're more productive than on a normal editor, even though you still have a lot more learning to do).

raverbashing 12y ago
Arrows are just another way of jumping, this is not Unix VI, this is VIM It's an editor, it should be as easy as possible. People (should) use VIM because it's powerful, not because it's different from other editors.
IE6 12y ago
Agreed - I use vim heavily and also use arrow keys (when I can) and when they do not work for whatever reason i fall back to HJKL. For me my main blocker was just purely not being able to use it for the absolute basic operations. I found that once I learned how to do the absolute basic (insert, copy, paste, move around, search, etc.) I was able to use vim. The next step was building my own vimrc with some very basic configurations that made vim much easier to use. Then whenever I need or want to do something complicated I just google for the command, plugin, or write my own plugin.