[LMB] AKICIF: touch typing

[James]

On 11/17/06, Martin Gill <martinsgill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/11/06, Dan Tilque <dtilque at nwlink.com> wrote:
> I HATE ctrl-y . Has to be the most awful key combination every
> invented. Gives me cramps in my left hand. (ok.. so i exaggerated a
> tiny bit).
>
> In the great editor wars I finally settled on VIM for the simple
> reason that all those ctrl key combinations in emacs drove me nuts. I
> was doing far too many finger stretches to be comfortable. It actually
> really surprised me how quick VIM commands are once you've learnt
> them, learning curve is huge though, especially since I didn't grow up
> with unix-like environments. I now use VIM everywhere I can.

Heh, I struggled with Emacs (oddly enough, I used emacs for several
years and I still didn't get the keys). But once I was forced to use
vi for a bit, I picked it up really quickly. Turns out the
statefulness of vi wasn't too hard to get used to. And Vim makes
editing really trivial, with no oddball Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Meta-Y style
combinations of Emacs...

The only really bad thing with using Vi/Vim is that my Word
documentation gets littered with :w and :wq as I can type <Esc>-:wq
automatically when I'm done. That and some applications decide to map
<Esc> to close the window.

For some reason or other, using vi/vim is more intuitive than emacs...