|
|
|
|
|
|
by macalicious
4864 days ago
|
|
|
Seems to be a lot of anger in there. As for myself, I don't really care much about speed while coding, however, I do care much about being efficient at doing things.
Why should I have to move my hands up to reach the arrow keys, if I can use the home row instead? I do think it is very tiresome to move my hands around (maybe because I'm lazy?). This of course applies to the mouse/trackpad as well. Again, you need to move your hand to away.
Again. Not necessarily about speed, more about efficiency and convenience. |
|
|
Today. Sure. Imagine my surprise when I see yet another bullshit vim article on HN, this one now saying "don't use the hjkl" keys. When will the madness stop?
Newbie programmers reading HN actually need to hear from someone who clearly sees that the emperor has no clothes. Some look at HN as the reference by which they ought to shape their learning and careers. There's a definite pro-vim bend here. And it's all bullshit.
If your goal is to be an entrepreneur, focus on the stuff that actually matters and is many orders of magnitude more signifiant than a ridiculous text editor from an era when keyboards had letters, numbers and three or four extra buttons.
If you want to be a fast data entry operator, definitely spend months getting good at vim.
Better yet, buy one of those single-hand chord-based text entry keypads and modify vim to work with it. You'll be able to type faster and with only one hand. Not sure if the work will have any quality at all or if it will be bug free or if you will be building anything anyone wants or if it will be profitable, but it will be awesome to behold.