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by wisemanwillhear 33 days ago
I like vi/vim, but it gets me all too frequently because I'm not precise enough of a typist. I'm busy typing away and I hit the wrong modifier key or hitting caps lock and I end up pulling things up or making changes that I never intended to make. Worse, in the split second after it happens and my muscle memory tries to correct it my immediate intuition of what mode I was in is wrong or which modifier key I'm pressing or caps lock is on and I only make the situation worse. Any improvements in performance because of the quick key interface are long gone.
2 comments

It's very common to disable caps lock or rebind it to something else (e.g. Esc for even more ergonomics)
This could probably be solved with a better keyboard