How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by ncmncm on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:11PM (#23696979)

I cannot remember the last time I wanted to use CapsLock--more than 30 years ago, anyway.

By far the most irritating thing about others' keyboards is they have not disabled it yet. Second most is that Ctrl isn't there instead.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by Symbiote on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:45AM (#23698484)

How do you TYPE_A_CONSTANT for the first time, or an ENUM_VALUE (perhaps somewhere you don't have autocomplete)?

I keep a caps lock on my programmable keyboard for this (Fn+K).

I also like SQL to be formatted with capital letters for keywords.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by Lio on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:25AM (#23698751)

Either using shift keys or:

  type_a_constant ctrl-[ vawU

That sounds more than it is. Really I just touch type it without thinking consciously about it.

Probably don’t even need visual mode that’s just how I work.

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