Yes I understood that. My point is how often do you know you need to move a line exactly 17 lines? Do you count them? Clearly much slower than doing it interactively by holding down ctrl-shift-down for a bit.

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

You ain't understanding it dog

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I just look at the line number. If the code I want to edit is 17 lines up there's a 17 next to it. My ide window looks like my comment. Normally an ide would look like this

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a vim user myself, I don't understand why you need relative lines either. I can just as easily type :23 to go to line 23.

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Mostly a matter of taste I think. One benefit is one less key press since relative keys shouldn't need to press enter at the end of the command. I mostly use it because it came default with LazyVim.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thoose are line numbers in IDE. You don't count them, you see them

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Line numbers are absolute, not relative (normally anyway; I think some editors allow showing relative line numbers). Anyway I think holding down (page) up/down is going to be just as fast.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

There are both modes for absolute and relative line numbers in vim. Holding up/down might be intuitive nd easy to remember, but saving 1 second everytime you need to do this can add up pretty fast