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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by spekcular on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @09:59PM (#23696909)
I've found keyboard-only vim is much slower than a mouse for editing papers, because the edits are often random-access and vim isn't great at that. You also can't use SyncTeX (which is amazing) without a mouse.
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by Lio on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:59AM (#23699003)
Why would you use vim keyboard only since vim supports using a mouse in the terminal?

It even supports using a mouse over ssh.

I don’t know SyncTex so can’t comment on that.

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