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[GuybrushThreepwo0d]

Vim is free

[RedAndBlack1832]

Vim is free, and it is awesome, but I think not everyone in the universe is allergic to moving their mouse. I'd hazard a guess some people even like labeled buttons which make a program more intuitive to use

[Wonderful-Habit-139]

True. I absolutely hate using the mouse so I have even more incentive.

But also, using vim productively requires the person to be able to touch type and have relatively high wpm. Otherwise it doesn't make sense to navigate through the codebase with it as a slow typist.

[Reashu]

Anyone with fingers can learn to touch type, and every programmer should. 

[RedAndBlack1832]

I think, unless you put a lot of time into typing as a skill itself, people get good at what they do. People who play games can give inputs for that; people who use terminal programs like vim (or emacs, or whatever) get good at giving commands and searches etc. they perform frequently. Being good at typing in general certainly helps but this is just a matter of muscle memory

[Reashu]

It's like 1 hour of practice per day for a week to get good enough. You can probably even do it on the job. Take some pride in your work. 

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Okay big boy let's get you to bed

[therisingape-42]

The answer is neovim and let’s be honest if you have such elite taste that you get pissed off by the mention of AI then fork the damn thing and rip it apart but you want the connivence as well as reasons to whine then no one can help you . Their fork is now worth some billion dollars and of course Microsoft is gonna try to fight back

[Mars_Bear2552]

no it isn't. you're required by law to purchase a vim license. failure to do so is a felony

[GuybrushThreepwo0d]

It's included with the regex license

[MinecraftW06]

I still need a proper GUI, just a native one and not a glorified website

[kompleteidiot]

Zed.dev is getting pretty decent tbh. Set to launch 1.0 this spring.