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Re:Coming Home to Vim (2010) by behnamoh on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:13PM (#33312607)
> And my hands can't even tell it's not vim…mostly!

How? Helix is <noun> → <verb> whereas Vim is <verb> → <noun>. I'm used to deleting entire sentences using `das`, but the order is completely the opposite in Helix.

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Re:Coming Home to Vim (2010) by themenomen on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:35AM (#33312960)
And that makes it `sad`
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Re:Coming Home to Vim (2010) by riwsky on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:36AM (#33316438)
Legit—`da` and `di` are the ones that trip me up the most.

Edits much simpler than that are often the same keystrokes as vim (`A`, `C`, `.`, `/`, etc), and those much more complicated would have kicked me into visual mode anyway.

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