• lengau@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    This is why I don’t use vim. Can’t spend all that mental energy on keybindings when I could spend it far more productively on KDE configuration options.

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      9 months ago

      You guys are all insane, and need to find a more productive use of your time and energy.

      Queues up another ranked game of League of Legends

    • CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz
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      9 months ago

      What do you mean spend mental energy on keybindings? Sure it will take you a couple times to do them to remenber them but after that you will just know them without having to think about them.

      I don’t know if it took me more than a couple hours to learn enough keybindings to be more productive than in vscode, and later on I just learned more as I need them and am now able to use them without thinking about it.

      I used to spend more time searching for the button to click with a mouse and remembering in what menu it was than it took me to learn and use vim keybindings.

      But this is all diff from person to person.

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      9 months ago

      You could either spend hundreds of hours being a slower programmer in order to learn something that squeezes a diminishing returns save on time. Or you can be a fast programmer now, albeit marginally slower than one that knows vim.

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        9 months ago

        Any amount of time I’ve saved using neovim has easily been offset by the amount of time I’ve spent configuring it. Wouldn’t change it though. It’s just fun to use, and there’s something nice about using an editor that I configured from the ground up. You can also just use a neovim distribution if you don’t care to set it up yourself.

        The keybindings aren’t hard though, and I would say that learning vim keybindings has had a net positive impact on my efficiency overall. They become second nature more quickly than you would think. Most actions are muscle memory at this point. Maybe a week of frustration, then you’ll be back up to speed. Then you get faster and more fluid from there.