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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by gfodor on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:45PM (#23095446)
When given a tradeoff between intuitivity and other benefits, vi almost always breaks against intuitivity. It's this design philosophy taken to its logical extreme.
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Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003) by appleflaxen on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:28AM (#23101491)
There's a better fit than "intuitive"

Vim is extremely intuitive in its compositional behavior; I have never used "67w", but I know exactly what it would do because of composition.

I think "discoverability" is closer.

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