Just Use Sublime Text

Re:Just Use Sublime Text by Arzh on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:42AM (#5412977)

I was thrown a bit when he say's "To code in Vim, you have to keep Vim in your head just as much as the code that you’re editing. You have to constantly think about what you’re doing." I have a few coworkers who work completely in vim while the rest of us use Visual Studio. I ask them questions about vim usage and usually they have to think a while about what they actually do because using vim is second nature to them.

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by readme on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:27AM (#5413130)

Yeah.

I do not have to think about what I'm doing in vim, when it comes to normal text editing.

To be quite honest, getting up to normal-editor level with vim shouldn't take more than a month to become comfortable. Learning to move, yank, paste, and navigate windows is not hard and you really don't have to think about it.

More advanced usage I have to think about, but that's no different than if you had to think about what you were doing in sublime when you clicked search and replace and started typing in a regular expression.

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by jussij on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:43AM (#5413360)

I think this is true of any keyboard driven editor.

My keyboard mapping of choice is Brief and the way this works for me is I think of a task and my fingers figure out what keys are needed.

On occasion I need do the reverse action, figure out what keys are required for a task and that requires a fair amount of thought.

What I do is think of the task and then as my hands are working I watch them to figure out which keys where used. It’s quite a strange feeling.

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