how do you people fucking use vim this is infuriating
In the middle of evil there is vi.
@lupo I'm trying really really hard to use it but jfc it keeps making me hate it.
@anelki @lupo I learned vi (not even VIM!) ages ago when I had to work on Windows, OS/2, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO, and maybe some other oddities. Having one common text editor enabled some sanity.
VIM was a nice evolution. Today I'm still only using a single-digit % of its potential, but bulk operations and regexen go a very long way to increasing my productivity.
Watching other people use VIM also helped me level up. Splitting windows, min/maxing them, etc...
Not that infuriating if you've spent all your childhood playing NetHack 🤣
@dbs
> bulk operations and regexen go a very long way to increasing my productivity
Sometimes it's better to leave it at that. Sure vim can be turned into a full-featured IDE, but sometimes that nice file browser and tagbar, autocompletion and spellchecker just take time to load. I often start it with an empty config just to be able to move around quickly, especially if I'm over ssh.
@anelki @lupo
