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From my experience with people and their vim knowledge, not "set -o vi" on their shell is what holds them back from becoming truly good at vim. Yes it's uncomf
by hammerandtongs 12y ago
From my experience with people and their vim knowledge, not "set -o vi" on their shell is what holds them back from becoming truly good at vim.
Yes it's uncomfortable but that's most likely a result of a person's disfluency in vim itself.
If you are having problems with vi in bash its likely that you aren't using w W b B cw dw D a A regularly in vim either.
- sevensor 12y agoI found that I just couldn't get used to `set -o vi`, despite using vim exclusively for editing. I think my muscle memory for bash was too well-developed by the time I found out about `set -o vi`.
- krick 12y agoI guess I'm pretty damn fluent in vim. But I use emacs-style shortcuts in shell and don't imagine why I would ever switch.
- hammerandtongs 12y agoBecause esc-b esc-b esc-b is much more painful then esc b b b