[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

Wyatt wyatt.epp at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 04:28:07 PDT 2013


On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 22:11:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:48:05PM +0000, Justin Whear wrote:
>> I've introduced a few young developers to Vim and the major 
>> hole that
>> they tend to fall into is printing out a list of vim "keyboard
>> shortcuts", because that's how other editors work: you 
>> memorize a
>> bunch of arbitrary key combinations.  So the thing that I 
>> emphasize is
>> learning Vim's *language*.
>
> Mmm, I like that description! You're right, it's actually a 
> language,
> not just a bunch of shortcuts. That's why is far more 
> expressive than a
> shortcut-based editor. You'd need an exponential number of 
> shortcuts
> just to keep up with all the possibilities -- clearly 
> impractical.
>
I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet: 
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/432364
Probably one of the more famous SO answers ever.

Also, this cheat sheet is pretty much the best: 
http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif

-Wyatt


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