What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by agentwiggles on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:44AM (#21921733)

It's not so much typing that Vim helps with, it's _editing_. It's definitely not about raw text entry - it's about thinking things like "hey I want to move these 3 lines up to this spot" and being able to do that with 3 or 4 keystrokes.

The reason folks talk about feeling crippled when they use a regular editor is that you get used to things like `f(` to take you to the front of some function's arg list, or `ci{` to quickly change some block of code.

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by criddell on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:31AM (#21922215)

> being able to do that with 3 or 4 keystrokes.

I get that. My point is that I decide to move that chunk of code after looking at the screen for 4 minutes so it doesn't matter if it's 3 or 4 keystrokes or 5 or 6.

Once you know your editor well, you aren't thinking about the keystrokes anyway. It becomes entirely automatic. There are lots of editor operations that I couldn't tell you what the keystrokes actually are without sitting at a keyboard and doing it.

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