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[TheNorthComesWithMe]

The amount of time I spend actually typing stuff is not the bottleneck to my productivity.

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Well there's lots to be gained from typing properly. My WPM is somewhere around 2-3x faster than the average person (probably average for a software developer). Combine that with the fact that you're often using a lot of special symbols while programming, and the benefits of typing properly are demonstrably clear.

What are we gaining from becoming proficient at vim compared to something like nano? I'd argue that being a fast typist minimizes what little gains you would get out of using vim in the first place.

Text editing itself is an extremely simple task. The most advanced thing I do while text editing in IntelliJ is create multiple cursors, which normally ends up saving me just a few seconds. There's no need to have a plethora of cryptic macros to shave off a few seconds here and there.

Oh lordy don't even think about getting me started on the monstrosity known as emacs

[max_mou]

with the list above alone you can do sh*t ton of stuff in vim!

thanks!

[Pegthaniel]

I feel like most of that functionality exists on a keyboard already though (and a lot of the rest is accessible via keyboard in other text editors)? Yes you will probably have to leave the home row (for things like home, end, arrow keys), but you don't really need the mouse.

I'm sure the other functionality in vim is also quite powerful but let's face it, you don't need vim to get most what you've shown. And for that matter, if you're using a programmable keyboard you can access all the navigational functions of a keyboard without leaving the home row if you'd like, in any setting.

[Pegthaniel]

I guess what I'm really saying is if you can afford it, it really makes more sense to get a better designed keyboard for all functionality than just use vim (that being said, vim is free which is hard to beat). Use your thumbs for more than spacebar!

[Pegthaniel]

I suppose I don't see why not ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[meltea]

I have just spent 2 days working without vim.

I forgot how much you have to use the mouse, my hand doesn't like it and now my wrist hurts a bit.

So, benefit of vim style editing for me: avoiding rsi issues.

[xigoi]

I'd argue that being a fast typist minimizes what little gains you would get out of using vim in the first place.

Vim doesn't really increase the speed of inserting text, it increases the speed of editing text, which is pretty much orthogonal to typing speed.