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Copilot can't exit vim
Copilot can't exit vim
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@reksas@sopuli.xyz on sopuli.xyz Open parent
i cant understand all the vim hyping. its probably very neat and can do whatever, but what good is that if it takes awful amount of bother to learn everything by heart since interface has been designed to be as unfriendly as possible. it doesnt have to be fit for office worker, but at least some ease if use is needed.
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@lemon@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent
The interface is modal editing, which, yes, takes some getting used to. The payoff is that you get a kind of programming language for text editing. Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions. Have you ever played a video game, be it with kbd+mouse or gamepad, and realize you’re doing a bunch of stuff without actually consciously thinking about what buttons you’re pressing? That’s what working in editors like Vim or (my fav) Helix feels like.
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@merc@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent
Rather than memorizing ctrl+shift+alt-style keybinds, you decompose stuff into chainable actions. By memorizing something else that’s equally or more obscure.
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@lemon@sh.itjust.works · 2d
Just in case you’re not trolling, here’s a simple example: yi) means yank inside )-parentheses. It copies the contents of round brackets. Core commands like these are relatively easy to remember
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