Re:Vim for Humans
by aninhumer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:00PM
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>cap, caa, ci(
Except those don't make much sense as compositions, because they overload the letters. cap? What does change-append-paste mean? Oh it actually means change-a-paragraph? Okay...
Sure, there are some convenient patterns to vim's shortcuts, but I think the extent to which they're a "language" is overstated. And that's fine, since it's mostly about muscle memory anyway.
>I think that my very favorite motion in vim might be the `f` key.
Yeah I did miss that one for a while.
>On the other hand, regexes scale much much better.
If I want regexes, I can use find and replace with them. And I think the minimal (keyboard driven) GUI is a lot easier to use for that than s/// syntax.
Except those don't make much sense as compositions, because they overload the letters. cap? What does change-append-paste mean? Oh it actually means change-a-paragraph? Okay...
Sure, there are some convenient patterns to vim's shortcuts, but I think the extent to which they're a "language" is overstated. And that's fine, since it's mostly about muscle memory anyway.
>I think that my very favorite motion in vim might be the `f` key.
Yeah I did miss that one for a while.
>On the other hand, regexes scale much much better.
If I want regexes, I can use find and replace with them. And I think the minimal (keyboard driven) GUI is a lot easier to use for that than s/// syntax.