I have to agree with this. Having one set of keybindings that you can take with you to most editors is something that really adds to the value of learning vim. I learned Sublime Text’s shortcuts, then IntelliJ’s shortcuts, which required a separate retraining. Learning vim required retraining again, but now I can bring that effort with me to new editing environments.
I have to agree with this. Having one set of keybindings that you can take with you to most editors is something that really adds to the value of learning vim. I learned Sublime Text’s shortcuts, then IntelliJ’s shortcuts, which required a separate retraining. Learning vim required retraining again, but now I can bring that effort with me to new editing environments.
In addition, some old Unix utilities like
lessuse a subset of Vim keybindings by default.Yes! Even many websites and web apps implement some Vim standards. Particularly
\for search.