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by radiKal07 880 days ago
> Instead of remembering cryptic commands

I use vim and nothing about its commands are "cryptic" to me. You want to "go to definition"? You press "gd" as in "(g)o to (d)efinition". What's cryptic about this?

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Exactly. The whole reason I use vim is because it's like a conversation. If you want to talk about cryptic shortcuts, look at IntelliJ. Why should Ctrl+B be Go to Declaration?
Are you serious? That's incredibly cryptic. The fact that you learned it doesn't make it intuitive for others.
gd isn't a native vim command though :P This tool is intended for people who never use vim more than a few times a month or a year
Not sure why you say it's not native... Sure it's made to work along with a ctag file but it's totally native (ie no plugin) if point vim to one, ctag is only crafting the file.