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This is the wrong way to go, if the UI is so bad it requires a course, then the problem is clearly the tool.
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Vim was designed on qwerty keyboards. On other layouts (e.g. neo2) hjkl are not in a row.
That's somewhat comforting to know. I'm in the beginning stages of building out a keyboard-heavy application, and I keep wondering about how to support different keyboard types. I suppose it's not possible to satisfy all customers if even Vim can't do it.
I once tried to migrate from VS Code to Neovim. I use TypeScript at work, and use many languages for my side projects. But the worst part was making Vim provide with things that you'd expect programming editors to have. So many options, what's best is up to opinion, integrating language servers, getting intellisense to work as you would expect, searching the project folder for file names. Then I realized that all I'm…
This is the wrong way to go, if the UI is so bad it requires a course, then the problem is clearly the tool.
I take it you're not a musician?
This is the price we pay for having easy-to-use computers. People have developed an expectation that everything should be easy and if it's not easy for beginners then it's bad.
Some things are just hard! That doesn't make them bad. Some of the best things in life actually take years of study to learn.
I once tried to migrate from VS Code to Neovim. I use TypeScript at work, and use many languages for my side projects. But the worst part was making Vim provide with things that you'd expect programming editors to have. So many options, what's best is up to opinion, integrating language servers, getting intellisense to work as you would expect, searching the project folder for file names. Then I realized that all I'm…
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It's a Show HN. OP's just sharing something they've been working on that they find interesting. No need to dump on it over and over. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> A good critical comment teaches us something. > learning Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory and doing it outside of Vim is pointles He fairly expressed his opinion of the OP's project. I don't agree with this opinion, but let's not be such snowflakes. The commentator did not insult the creator.
johncoltrane gave the same feedback last time, so I don't see how this is supposed to be helpful to OP. [0]
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> A good critical comment teaches us something. > learning Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory and doing it outside of Vim is pointles He fairly expressed his opinion of the OP's project. I don't agree with this opinion, but let's not be such snowflakes. The commentator did not insult the creator.
I don't think it's constructive feedback in that it doesn't give anything for OP to do except just give up. johncoltrane gave the same feedback last time, so I don't see how this is supposed to be helpful to OP. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31832423
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> A good critical comment teaches us something. > learning Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory and doing it outside of Vim is pointles He fairly expressed his opinion of the OP's project. I don't agree with this opinion, but let's not be such snowflakes. The commentator did not insult the creator.
I don't think it's constructive feedback in that it doesn't give anything for OP to do except just give up. johncoltrane gave the same feedback last time, so I don't see how this is supposed to be helpful to OP. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31832423
Plus I think it's great that he's suggesting to all readers free alternative for learning.
Please just read Practical Vim if you’re going to double down on using Vim. All of these tutorials are the minimal basics. Vim forces you to glue together lots of inefficient commands to manipulate text. I feel frustrated seeing Vim users tout how efficient their editor is when they haven’t learned all of Vim’s nasty bells and whistles you need to actually be efficient at manipulating text. (When you press colon, do…
> Vim forces you to glue together lots of inefficient commands to manipulate text
> Vim’s nasty bells and whistles you need to actually be efficient at manipulating text