vim : the best editor ever

[hklee00]

Amen!

[armd86]

I don't know. I always try to move to a modal text editor, yet when I see people using it i always think the time he spends typing regex, moving around, selecting and other stuff I could be done in half the time in a visual editor.

[Lcrymlgy]

vim on windows?

lame

[MoonLightFacade]

@Lcrymlgy That's not windows, dude...

[nemckoff]

meh.. i'm grad that i switched to emacs, thanks for video that prooves that i'm right.

[db11289]

@nemckoff Whats better about emacs and how far did you get with vim?

[qbz32]

Replace with confirmation? Only cowards using confirmations!

[gairabad]

Vim's main strength is its macros. An abundance of plugins is a secondary strength. Other than that it sucks. Using the mouse is actually pretty fast, it's just the fact that it's boring that makes you notice.

[drthrean]

@gairabad

No, it's main strength is it's ergomomic key command design. You are right: using the mouse is quite fast. With the common hybrid mouse keyboard technique you can probably go as fast as experienced Vim users BUT:

it's not ergonomic. How often do you switch mouse and keyboard with your right hand a day? 1000 times? I do it perhaps 100 times. Now whose right shoulder will hurt more?

[ps1cscpp]

@drthrean and what wrist hurt more? I like the idea behind Vim and infact I myselft design a keyboard layout with autohotkey to almost never move the arm. Now I have an anoying pain in my writs. I move my arms to precisely reduce the pain in my hands, Isn't a good thing.

[quingquong]

Great tune! FSOL