Comment by bspammer
4 days ago
I don't think it's the keybindings in particular that people love about vim, you can rebind everything after all. I'm attached to vim keybindings in the same way I'm attached to qwerty keyboards - something had to be the default, it's fairly arbitrary, and there's very marginal benefits in switching to a different set of bindings.
It really is the modal editing style that's the main draw. Someone who edits frequently should find vim more convenient, not less, but it does require a lot of time to learn all the available commands and burn them into your muscle memory.
Yes, the default. That's why, although I am french speaking, I switched a few years ago from azerty to qwerty keyboard just to be using the keyboard used by the people who programmed the default in editors like vim and emacs. Otherwise it is just a PITA. Should have done that from the very beginning I was programming. With Karabiner and Goku I have been able to configure some key combinations to get accented letters like righr alt+e for é, right shift+right alt+e for è, ...