Dummkopf's guide to vim

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Sat Sep 13 17:40:35 UTC 2008


Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> First vim, also know by the old name of vi, is know to be hard to use.
> This is because it has more commands and power than any other editor

Except for Emacs of course.


> that is common. It is hard to use because it starts in command mode.
> This is IMOHO stupid. It should start in edit mode because that is
> what most people are used to. Of course getting out of it might prove

Usually people don't start editing on the first character but need to
navigate first to where they want to start.



   Florian
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