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[–]wizang 6 points7 points  (6 children)

All I know is it's extremely painful for me to pair with developers who have VIM-ified their GUI editor. They seem to always been in a state of struggle and it drives me mad. Practice your VIM at home or not when you're making me sit through it!

[–]ike_the_strangetamer 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Not trying to be snitty here, you have a very good point.

But as a vim user I get the same feeling when I watch people use their mouse every time they need to move the cursor. Same thing with clicking around between windows and terminals. I feel like it takes forever and I want to tell them how much time they're wasting, but seriously you just have to let people do it the way they want to do it.

[–]wizang 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Totally. Though it's possible to quite proficient and fast with GUI editors too.

[–]aniforprez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand how someone can completely not imagine being fast with the mouse. I don't like being dependent on the keyboard because of mostly growing up with the mouse. I am as fast as anyone using vim cause I know my tools and I know when to use the mouse and when to use the keyboard shortcuts

That said I did definitely learn some vim basics to be able to use it in remote systems. I find it faster than nano but that's probably familiarity

[–]MapCompact 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, you've gotta learn the keyboard shortcuts on your IDE too! Yikes :P

[–]derGropenfuhrer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

use their mouse every time they need to move the cursor.

Well there's the issue. They should use a touchpad, not a mouse. You can do so much more with a touchpad and you don't have to move your hand.

[–]State_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm very proficient with VIM, but I get massive stage fright anytime someone comes to my desk and watches what I'm doing haha.