Re:Vim's speed is not really the point (2013)
by smhenderson on Monday June 01, 2015 @03:31PM
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but I like it when I press the up-arrow key and my cursor moves up a line
I haven't used an install of Vim in a _long_ time that didn't map the arrow keys (and home, end, pgup, etc) to the way most modern computer users are used to.
I use Vim because it's what I learned when I first started using Unix/Linux. It's on just about every machine I work with and is easily installed on anything that doesn't come with it out of the box. I'm not arguing that it's the best ever editor, just that it works well for me.
But, yeah, the days of having to always use hjkl to move around are pretty deep in the past at this point.
I haven't used an install of Vim in a _long_ time that didn't map the arrow keys (and home, end, pgup, etc) to the way most modern computer users are used to.
I use Vim because it's what I learned when I first started using Unix/Linux. It's on just about every machine I work with and is easily installed on anything that doesn't come with it out of the box. I'm not arguing that it's the best ever editor, just that it works well for me.
But, yeah, the days of having to always use hjkl to move around are pretty deep in the past at this point.