Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "Vim Will Actually Change Your Life." video.

  1. I almost always use terminal, when I don't have to use something different. I like text files and never use office programs (I rather convert Word documents to PDF or Markdown using pandoc on the command line). But I never use vim. I avoid vim, where I can, even if I found out, how to exit vim again. I always set my default editor to nano, or recently micro, which is a very convenient text editor in terminal. So your arguments don't apply to me and are probably very opinionated and wrong. Vim has pretty weird commands. For example, in order to edit something in vim, you first have to enter the edit mode. But normally, when you use an editor, you want to edit something. And even if it's just one or two keys to enter the edit mode, I don't see any reason, why it isn't the default mode. Besides the controls don't really work well with my keyboard config. And for text editing, I prefer gedit, which has almost no features, just a simple editor, because I want to be able to open multiple files at once from one terminal without the editor preventing me from using the terminal, like terminal editors like vim, nano and micro would.
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