Time to talk about why vim is better than emacs and recruit for the temple of vim
I’ve been using vim for 6 years and I average one new keyboard shortcut a year. Honestly all I think I really need to know is tabs/windows, vertical select, and go to bottom of the file.
That being said its my main editor and I honestly feel like it makes me a better programmer to not rely on auto-complete.
Vim bindings in an IDE is a waste of time and never feels quite right. the timings are off which means I fuck up said bindings.
I find it amazing that I always seem to learn just another shortcut- there’s so many!
Yeah, my experience with bindings has been very mixed. I will say, VsVim bindings work extremely well, but that has been the best I’ve experienced and some other IDEs are just super laggy like you’ve said.
I’ve only tried vim bindings in VS code so that may be why my opinion is as it is. The work I do tends to not be limited by not using a full ide. Mostly running grep -re <string> in a directory to find references is just as fast as an ide search. I find switching to a mouse often while editing just so frustrating.
