Re:Vim After 11 Years (2013)
by lucb1e on Sunday November 02, 2014 @09:20AM
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> The only advantage I can see in Vim over a modern solution is that it runs in the terminal (which I guess is useful if you like to remotely modify files in your production environment?).
ssh -X host
Then remotely run whatever tool you want, including Sublime or Geany or Kate or even Wireshark if you wish.
> I must say I've only spent ~2 months of my life using vim before giving up, which I think is already pretty long for an evaluation.
Hmm yeah that is pretty long, you should see the advantage of it by then. Have you used it a lot in those two months? Because I've alternated between Geany and vim for like 6 months before being fluent enough in vim that I could get work done at the speed I could in Geany (or Notepad++ for that matter). But if I had seriously used vim for everything that I used Geany for, I think I would have easily gotten there in 2 months.
> I would be very happy if someone could point out to me the elephant that I am not seeing here.
Beyond that it's simply faster in text editing (code, plain text, or something like Markdown for that matter), I guess it's also a way of using a computer. I've never liked the mouse for anything besides games or GIMP and even navigate many websites by keyboard in Firefox. Ideally I'd spend all my time in a terminal, typing away with my hands almost never leaving the home row. But that's just me, I know noone else who is so fond of their keyboard vs. a mouse or touchpad.
ssh -X host
Then remotely run whatever tool you want, including Sublime or Geany or Kate or even Wireshark if you wish.
> I must say I've only spent ~2 months of my life using vim before giving up, which I think is already pretty long for an evaluation.
Hmm yeah that is pretty long, you should see the advantage of it by then. Have you used it a lot in those two months? Because I've alternated between Geany and vim for like 6 months before being fluent enough in vim that I could get work done at the speed I could in Geany (or Notepad++ for that matter). But if I had seriously used vim for everything that I used Geany for, I think I would have easily gotten there in 2 months.
> I would be very happy if someone could point out to me the elephant that I am not seeing here.
Beyond that it's simply faster in text editing (code, plain text, or something like Markdown for that matter), I guess it's also a way of using a computer. I've never liked the mouse for anything besides games or GIMP and even navigate many websites by keyboard in Firefox. Ideally I'd spend all my time in a terminal, typing away with my hands almost never leaving the home row. But that's just me, I know noone else who is so fond of their keyboard vs. a mouse or touchpad.