Re:Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
by michaelmrose on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:28AM
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You have started with an opinion and a theory of why vim doesn't work for you. This is perfectly valid. After all who knows you better than you? Then you launder that opinion through an appeal to entirely hypothetical authority "We've known" and bad analogy and what comes out is eternal truth as authentic as the town facades in a cheap western movie.
It's a bad analogy because a car's controls are operated while carefully piloting a ton of metal at life ending speeds around 17 assholes on their phones while your editor is operated safely at your desk. Your car also has few enough vital controls that they can all be given a physical manifestation while your editor has a lot of functionality and most provide some way for you to access all of this functionality easily. All options have some downsides and mental overhead.
You can provide a wide array of buttons possibly in sub and sub sub menus see content creation applications. Specifically 3D modeling apps.
Filtering options as you type. Consider application launchers on most platforms where you could type Fir<Enter> to launch Firefox.
Sequences of shortcuts after you have exhausted the standard fare. See Emacs default key bindings for an extreme example.
The thing is that even Holding down Control while you press c is an example of a modal action. The C key either inserts its character or copies selected to a buffer based on whether the control key is held down. This is modal!
The same is to a degree true of sub menus as the functionality presented changes based on which menu is open and which options you have picked previously.
You are to some degree paying the inevitable cost of navigating a large number of functions and the only thing you can do is either forego the power of additional functionality by using simpler tools or figure out how to pay it in the least expensive fashion.
You've elevated your preference to how to pay this tax to a scientific choice and reduced a massive number your fellows to Luddites in an abusive relationship with their editor defending their choice with misplaced pride. I invite you to consider that perhaps 1/4 of your fellows aren't simply idiots and perhaps there are reasons that for them this method of dealing with complexity is effective for them.
It's a bad analogy because a car's controls are operated while carefully piloting a ton of metal at life ending speeds around 17 assholes on their phones while your editor is operated safely at your desk. Your car also has few enough vital controls that they can all be given a physical manifestation while your editor has a lot of functionality and most provide some way for you to access all of this functionality easily. All options have some downsides and mental overhead.
You can provide a wide array of buttons possibly in sub and sub sub menus see content creation applications. Specifically 3D modeling apps.
Filtering options as you type. Consider application launchers on most platforms where you could type Fir<Enter> to launch Firefox.
Sequences of shortcuts after you have exhausted the standard fare. See Emacs default key bindings for an extreme example.
The thing is that even Holding down Control while you press c is an example of a modal action. The C key either inserts its character or copies selected to a buffer based on whether the control key is held down. This is modal!
The same is to a degree true of sub menus as the functionality presented changes based on which menu is open and which options you have picked previously.
You are to some degree paying the inevitable cost of navigating a large number of functions and the only thing you can do is either forego the power of additional functionality by using simpler tools or figure out how to pay it in the least expensive fashion.
You've elevated your preference to how to pay this tax to a scientific choice and reduced a massive number your fellows to Luddites in an abusive relationship with their editor defending their choice with misplaced pride. I invite you to consider that perhaps 1/4 of your fellows aren't simply idiots and perhaps there are reasons that for them this method of dealing with complexity is effective for them.