[linuxdude314]

I don’t understand why so many people in these comments are claiming text editors are “hard” to learn.

Software engineers that went to college have taken Calculus, Physics, and other advanced courses that can be very hard for many to learn.

The reality is that memorizing a few keyboard shortcuts is not in fact hard. It’s something that can take time, and you might not like the shortcuts, but it’s not hard.

If you want to use powerful tools, you’re going to have to learn how to use them. There’s no way around this.

[globular-toast]

I don't get this either. You watch a skilled tradesman work and he'll use all manner of tricks he's learnt over the years. His tools will do most of the work, he just gently guides them in the right direction. Then I'll see developers not even using tab completion in a shell. It's almost like tooling has to shout at them (like underlining errors etc) out of the box before they'll interact with it. It's so strange.

[mixmastamyk]

You’re in the wrong thread. Normal folks outnumber developers 100 to 1.

Not to mention, some of that dev group prefer that their small editor have the same keybindings as their full dev environment and entire OS for that matter. No mode switching needed.