Re:Vim Croquet
by sdegutis on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @05:33PM
(#7140284)
Personally, the main reason I moved from vim to emacs is because I don't want to have to think about my editor, I want it to be pure muscle memory. I'm okay with hitting "jjjjk" to go 3 lines down rather than trying to guess that it's exactly 3 down and typing "3j". Emacs-style navigating/editing is great for this kind of error-tolerant navigation/editing. It leaves my brain mostly free to focus on whatever I'm actually coding at the time.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Vim Croquet
by vectorpush on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:07PM
(#7140788)
I think most experienced vim users will tell you that it is pure muscle memory for them. Also, vim supports jjjjk as well as 3j. Anyway, I just realized I am debating vim vs emacs so I'll stop here.
We all know the one true editor is the Chrome console anyway.
Nothing about vim forces you not to type jjjjk, or better yet use motions or whatever fits your brain. But keep up the good emacs-vs-vim-troll fight
I go with a hybrid approach: I hit the number row somewhere in the loose vicinity of the number of rows I want to move, and then hit "j" a couple times to get exactly there. If it's more than a single-digit number of rows away, I might do the first step more than once.