Re:Bram Moolenaar Discusses Developing Vim, How He Uses It, ...
by pmoriarty on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:11PM
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Copy and paste? Reordering two lines or two characters?
If that's all that vim could do better than traditional editors, then sure, stick with the traditional editors. Learning the complexity of vim is not worth it.
But those are incredibly trivial examples. vim can do so much more than that, in a really efficient and powerful way.
It's like demanding why one should use a battleship when a tricycle can also turn left and right, and can go forward and backwards. Yes, both can do that, but the battleship does far, far more, and there are reasons for its complexity.
If all you need is a tricycle, stick with the tricycle by all means. It's much more intuitive than a battleship. But some of us need far, far more power than that.
If that's all that vim could do better than traditional editors, then sure, stick with the traditional editors. Learning the complexity of vim is not worth it.
But those are incredibly trivial examples. vim can do so much more than that, in a really efficient and powerful way.
It's like demanding why one should use a battleship when a tricycle can also turn left and right, and can go forward and backwards. Yes, both can do that, but the battleship does far, far more, and there are reasons for its complexity.
If all you need is a tricycle, stick with the tricycle by all means. It's much more intuitive than a battleship. But some of us need far, far more power than that.