[JohnMakin]

This is interesting to me. vim was my main editor since the start of my career and I was very fast with it, much faster than my peers with an editor. at the outset of llm’s, I ended up using a plugin that would utilize bindings to help me edit faster. with claude code, and how fast it is making changes across many files, I almost never use vim anymore, or vi, unless I need to inspect files in a container/server.

[thunspa]

Could you share a bit more about this?

[JohnMakin]

there were plugins where I could quickly describe the edits I wanted, and it would utilize my existing bindings and shortcuts to do stuff that was very common for me. It was more of a fun trick than useful, I guess, but it saved keystrokes, and I have severe tendonitis, so it was nice.

Nowadays almost never enter vim, because it is 100x faster than I could ever be. I use it for viewing files occasionally but reviewing edits in the claude or codex window usually works just as well. It’s the first skill I expect to decay for me (vim)