Thanks! Glad they helped, spent too long making them haha.
Hmm good questions:
1) Every couple of months I try to learn/do something that makes me faster and more productive, this time it was dedicating myself to vim. I do a lot of work on my laptop and had just spent a couple of months relearning how to touch type at about 80-90wpm and it seemed like the next frontier. Basically - I wanted to only type, every time my hand moved to my mouse I break my flow just a little bit.
I definitely am not a diehard Vim user. I don't think it's for everyone. However the obstacles I had in previous attempts were all addressed by a combination of: much better typing, VSCode environment (can't see myself using pure vim, it is way too useful and pleasing), plugins like easymotion, and the keybind jj (no joke).
2) I think I felt faster in about 4 days. I really forced myself to use it, I disconnected my mouse avoided the track-pad like the plague. The first couple days I spent configuring + googling every time something felt slow in vim. Now I'd say I'm about 1.5x faster than using a mouse or keypad! Easymotion is honestly amazing, I use the other vim motions too, but moving through files with it makes using a mouse feel clunky.
3) Nope! I like to combine the two, it's where I feel most productive. The VSCode commands I use the most are cmd + p, and cmd + d (duplicate cursor) which works with vim!
Reach out if you have any other questions, or if you give it another go I'd love to hear your progress!
Thanks! Glad they helped, spent too long making them haha.
Hmm good questions:
1) Every couple of months I try to learn/do something that makes me faster and more productive, this time it was dedicating myself to vim. I do a lot of work on my laptop and had just spent a couple of months relearning how to touch type at about 80-90wpm and it seemed like the next frontier. Basically - I wanted to only type, every time my hand moved to my mouse I break my flow just a little bit.
I definitely am not a diehard Vim user. I don't think it's for everyone. However the obstacles I had in previous attempts were all addressed by a combination of: much better typing, VSCode environment (can't see myself using pure vim, it is way too useful and pleasing), plugins like easymotion, and the keybind jj (no joke).
2) I think I felt faster in about 4 days. I really forced myself to use it, I disconnected my mouse avoided the track-pad like the plague. The first couple days I spent configuring + googling every time something felt slow in vim. Now I'd say I'm about 1.5x faster than using a mouse or keypad! Easymotion is honestly amazing, I use the other vim motions too, but moving through files with it makes using a mouse feel clunky.
3) Nope! I like to combine the two, it's where I feel most productive. The VSCode commands I use the most are cmd + p, and cmd + d (duplicate cursor) which works with vim!
Reach out if you have any other questions, or if you give it another go I'd love to hear your progress!
Thanks for answering my questions! 😁
I might try again but this time with easy-motion.
Personally I found vscode vim plugin quite laggy but I've had no issues with this extension marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...