Comment by p-e-w
13 hours ago
That’s why HN users constantly advocate for Vim, a program in which every single thing works completely differently from every other modern application.
13 hours ago
That’s why HN users constantly advocate for Vim, a program in which every single thing works completely differently from every other modern application.
Yes, if there's one lesson from historical UI research that still holds, it's that mode switching is expensive. That's why people install vi plugins everywhere.
Wait...
Vi plugins don’t even exist for the vast majority of applications.
The last resort is to switch to ROU mode (key combo for entering it is :wq)