On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:43:42PM EST, [email protected] wrote: [..]
> Is there a kind of vim psychology??? ;) > > I am interested in answers as I am interested in questions... :) I don't recall making a choice, but if I did, it was likely dictated by such considerations as the portability of vi across UNIX systems. I must say that at first I was not too fond of continually having to hit ‘i’ to switch to insert mode and the Escape key to return to normal mode. Felt like a lot of unnecessary extra work.. But I was young and foolish so I stuck with it and kept Notepadding my Vim and cussing every time I forgot to hit the Escape key. It took a couple of years before I began to understand the cleverness of Vim's design. Having a default ‘normal’ mode where hundreds of editing commands only require pressing a couple of keys one at a time with *no modifiers involved* was a stroke of genius.. in this perspective, the minimal overhead caused by mode-switching is a very small price to pay. As to a ‘Vim psychology’.. I don't know.. maybe.. same as programmers, it might boil down to ‘laziness, impatience, and hubris’. :-) cj -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
