Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Vim: The Most Important Text Editor On Linux" video.

  1. I spent decades hating Vim and thinking people were crazy for choosing to use such an inferior and un-intuitive editor. Somewhat recently I took a second look at it (specifically Neovim), and spent a few days forcing myself to get familiar with motions, learning how to personalize it, and configuring with LSPs, etc., There is no going back to something like VS Code now. My editor is perfectly configured to something that works optimally for me. I would recommend that anyone learn Vim motions, even if you dislike Vim itself. They certainty don't seem very intuitive at first, especially with most modern software hacing left-hand-centric common hotkeys that use modifers keys, with right-hand combinations being less common due to mouse use. Spend a couple days forcing yourself to use them while working on a project,, and you won't regret it. I can now move around and edit a document faster than a mouse/touchpad by orders of magnitude, one only needs to learn the muscle-memory of the keys.
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