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I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
This is a realization I had after finally ditching Emacs / keyboard only life. Keybindings seem to engage your brain in a different way and make the activity more fun, but I don't think it's actually any more productive.
I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
As someone who is a midelevel vimmer and has been using it for 20 years, that's probably true. But the muscle memory is there, and it's standard everywhere . I do get a lot of leverage out of macros and text objects, features which I'm sure have equivalents in IDEs and other editors, but I know how to use them in vim.
I feel the same way about vim that I do learning cursive; I honestly wish I could erase it from my brain because -- and it took a long time for me to figure this out -- it, for me, brings NO advantages.
Now, what would be nice is something as extensible and potentially light as vim but, first and foremost, played nice with other "regular people" programs and keybindings. Maybe it's out there, but I haven't found it yet.
I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
It'd be interesting to do a comparison. But to your point, I don't think people use it as much for productivity gains as just the fun of it.
There are many syntax-aware vim verbs (ci[ or ci” for example) that save a lot of time and let me get back faster to thinking about the what and not the how. Too much time on the how and my ADD kicks in, sure as someone walking into my office and trying to talk to me.
Why can't you use vim and VSCode? I use the neovim extension for VSCode[1] and it works great! That gets me real vim input and the VSCode extension ecosystem. 1: https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
I don't care about the productivity, I do care about not doing tedious things.
I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
I did 100% pair programming with a team that didn't standardize on editors or keyboards. We solved the issue in the article by just never using each other's machines. It was very rare that the navigator would want to type something but if they did, it was usually just a line or so, so we would "strong" pair, ie, tell the other person exactly what to type. If we wanted to switch the driver/navigator role, we would jus…
Unfortunately my employer doesn't allow force-pushing :( Instead we resort to using jetbrains stuff.
Why can't you use vim and VSCode? I use the neovim extension for VSCode[1] and it works great! That gets me real vim input and the VSCode extension ecosystem. 1: https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim
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Unfortunately my employer doesn't allow force-pushing :( Instead we resort to using jetbrains stuff.
Same at my place. I think it’s for compliance reasons, but it feels patronising. A bit like taking away the sharp tools so us dummies cannot hurt ourselves. Next, maybe No-Code GUI programming because a real language is too scary too?