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by davemp 428 days ago
I’m not sure. Command based editing opens more doors than just optimizing keystrokes. There are edits I somewhat regularly do with Vim macros that save me minutes of typing and cognitive burden of examining refactor locations. It’s probably not going to be make or break, but I do think it’s significant in a p > 0.05 sense.

I imagine Vim is only just a local optima too. There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware that I haven’t been able to fairly evaluate yet (not in the boring corp approved software list).

[0]: https://helix-editor.com/

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> There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware…

With Neovim, you get the best of both worlds: it's Vim with AST support via Treesitter and LSP support baked in.

Any good recommendations for plugins to add commands to work on asts?