Re:Learn Vim (2021)
by colordrops on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:23PM
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But then you'd not be comfortable with the hundreds if not thousands of other packages out there that use vim bindings.
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Re:Learn Vim (2021)
by jzelinskie on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:35PM
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I think folks might be over-estimating the difference between the Helix and vim. IME, adding "ge" to Vimium[0] was good enough to have any conflicting muscle-memory. I don't think it's much more than lots of folks are already configuring on their own in their vimrc (e.g. installing plugins like vim-unimpaired).
I'm not sure that I buy the purity argument -- almost all "vim modes" in other software are interpretations of the vim key-bindings and not an embeded vim/neovim engine. As a result, they all have their own caveats and folks using vim get used to functionality that exists exclusively in their vimrc.
[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...