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I need to get some fresh air and listen to peaceful music to forget that I saw this! Vim has been one of the best discoveries of my life BECAUSE of its modes, and I've taken that modal approach to my browsers, VSCode, etc.
take that emacs
Why not just use nano where all the common operations are labeled clearly at the bottom of the screen?
The author answers that in the linked thing, the short of it is for the vim features that nano doesn't have.
I need to get some fresh air and listen to peaceful music to forget that I saw this! Vim has been one of the best discoveries of my life BECAUSE of its modes, and I've taken that modal approach to my browsers, VSCode, etc.
If you don't already do it the neovim extension for vscode is nights and days better than the one trying to emulate vim in javascript.
I've half-learned vim and like the idea of it, but frankly I also use so many other "regular" programs that at times I wish I never learned vim.
I'm really hoping this is more-or-less what I think it is.
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The author answers that in the linked thing, the short of it is for the vim features that nano doesn't have.
I wonder which sort of features they could have in mind, if learning the basic modes is too hard for the intended user of the plugin.
I need to get some fresh air and listen to peaceful music to forget that I saw this! Vim has been one of the best discoveries of my life BECAUSE of its modes, and I've taken that modal approach to my browsers, VSCode, etc.
But come on! Learning vim bindings is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Once you’re hooked you’ll hate any non-mode based editors.