Re:A simple makefile is a unicorn
by WillReplyfFood on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:03AM
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Because in the windows world- every ui-interface holds its contract, everything explains itself and does what it supossed to do.
There is no disk-icon that doesent save.
There is no set of shortkeys ignoring controll s.
Design is meeting the users expectations without additional instructions with functionality. VIM is not designed very well.
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Just because Vim was not designed for the mouse clicking UI environment does not mean that it's not designed well. If it weren't designed well, Vim would not be in widespread use 40 years after its inception.
Sure, but if you're trying to carry over Windows expectations over to Linux you're sure to be disappointed.
In Vim there are modes that describe sets of keybindings and there are commands that are bound to them. The commands themselves are are straightforward for anyone who's fluent in Linux vocabulary.
'Saving' is a Windows word. We :write to files or :w for short.