How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by mimimi31 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:49AM (#23700400)

What has always kept me from learning Vim is my non-English keyboard layout. Many of the default key combinations are impossible or require some serious finger acrobatics.

Sure, I could try figuring out a new set of easily reachable and non-conflicting keybindings for my own machines, but much of my motivation for learning it in the first place was being able to work on remote machines more comfortably.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by insertnickname on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:38AM (#23711505)

Try out a US* QWERTY keyboard for a few months. I grew up with non-English keyboards, but then some years ago I got stuck with a US keyboard for half a year, and after that I didn't want to go back. I can easily type the few non-English characters I need with the X.org compose key, so I can easily write in my native language. I assume it would work equally well for any language using a Latin-script alphabet.

*) US, not UK. UK QWERTY is trash.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by jgwil2 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:01AM (#23702118)

Interesting point, and a good reminder of how anglocentric the computing world is in some ways. Do localized IDEs typically take this into consideration?

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