Default linespace macvim4/30/2023 ![]() Oh boy, that heading, what a whopper straight from the get go. Vim is not going to make you type faster. ![]() That is correct, it won’t make you type faster than you already can. Sublime Text, however will most likely indirectly make you type slower, or less often, depending on how much you use your mouse or touchpad, which both suck your fingers away from the delicious keys that can be typed, or even better, edited with. Anyway, insert mode is the worst mode for any editor, period. As Drew Neil likens it to painting, where the painter is very unlikely to keep the brush touching the canvas all the time, and might be surveying the scene instead, mixing paint, and so on. The delicious godlike powers of Vim are pretty much all in its normal mode, where less than a handful of keystrokes can do amazing things. ![]() Vim is not a more efficient editor for regular text editing Not that Vim doesn’t have any insert mode chords, which also are amazing :h ins-special-keys, but the big kahuna is still normal mode and is what separates Vim from pretty much the rest and enables it to reign supreme, in my opinion. That is less correct, and it can be demonstrated, which will happen throughout my post.įor the first 1-2 years of your Vim usage you will be much less efficient than your current editor because of the odd yet lovable key bindings. ![]() After about 2 years you will be proficient. ![]()
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