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Calling it a code editor is like calling my car a “work transport vehicle”
Vim is an all purpose text-editing machine and although it has some definite quirks it solves problems. If you’ve used original vi you’ll know just how much more amazing vim is without changing the core concepts.
Much love to Bram, you made the world a better place ❤️
Vim is just way better than Vi if I have to use it to actually change more than a few characters in a text file/config.
It's probably just me but with Vi I struggle with inputting any text because I'm used to using the arrow keys to navigate. It keeps putting a 'B', in particular, and newlines whenever I want to navigate text.
I used to use arrow keys with VIM, but found that using
hjklworked better in some circumstances. Especially when writing reusable macros. It also avoids the need to move your fingers away from the main keys, making you faster.I highly recommend getting use to using
hjklrather than the arrow keys.Some cases? hjkl is such a euphoric way to move around that all my keyboards have the arrow keys mapped to those letters under a layer. Truly a game changer.