New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: I don't know text editing shortcuts. Should I learn Vim/Emacs/My IDE?
Ask HN: I don't know text editing shortcuts. Should I learn Vim/Emacs/My IDE?
7 by skwee357 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I live most of the time inside JetBrains IDEs. I occasionally edit random files, mainly in terminal using Vim. I also write a blog (with different tools, mainly Obsidian and Typora). In Firefox and Chrome, I use Vimium for years. Recently, I've realized that I don't really master any editing shortcuts. I'm able to navigate char by char, word by word, end and beginning of the line, as well as selecting text. But nothing more complex. For any complex file editing, I resort to mouse. I know that JetBrains have tons of shortcuts to help with text editing, Vim has its own as well as Emacs. Few years ago, I've switched to 60% keyboard (so my arrow keys are on CapsLock+ijkl) and I feel like my typing speed did increase. I'm looking to make a similar improvement in regards to text editing and I'm wondering what should I invest it. I know that Emacs shortcuts are pretty much universally supported. You can get them in MacOS and JetBrains, you get the in the terminal, and obviously in Emacs (which I used 2 maybe 3 times in my life). Vim gets more love (from what I see) compared to Emacs, and you can get IdeaVim or even terminal navigation with Vim. And I feel like mastering JetBrains shortcuts will help with text editing, but only in JetBrains tools. I'm leaning towards trying to master Vim, but wondering if Emacs might be more useful, since I also write non code related text and use mainly MacOS (which as far as I know, honors most Emacs shortcuts). Mastering JetBrains shortcuts feel the least appealing to me, since I can't transfer that knowledge to other programs. What are your opinions? Edit: just to clarify, I'm not looking to switch to 100% Vim/Emacs. I'm instead wondering, mastering which shortcuts, will yield the most benefits for my (code)writing skills. I'm not in the mood to setup vim for code editing, and very much happy with JetBrains tools.
7 by skwee357 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I live most of the time inside JetBrains IDEs. I occasionally edit random files, mainly in terminal using Vim. I also write a blog (with different tools, mainly Obsidian and Typora). In Firefox and Chrome, I use Vimium for years. Recently, I've realized that I don't really master any editing shortcuts. I'm able to navigate char by char, word by word, end and beginning of the line, as well as selecting text. But nothing more complex. For any complex file editing, I resort to mouse. I know that JetBrains have tons of shortcuts to help with text editing, Vim has its own as well as Emacs. Few years ago, I've switched to 60% keyboard (so my arrow keys are on CapsLock+ijkl) and I feel like my typing speed did increase. I'm looking to make a similar improvement in regards to text editing and I'm wondering what should I invest it. I know that Emacs shortcuts are pretty much universally supported. You can get them in MacOS and JetBrains, you get the in the terminal, and obviously in Emacs (which I used 2 maybe 3 times in my life). Vim gets more love (from what I see) compared to Emacs, and you can get IdeaVim or even terminal navigation with Vim. And I feel like mastering JetBrains shortcuts will help with text editing, but only in JetBrains tools. I'm leaning towards trying to master Vim, but wondering if Emacs might be more useful, since I also write non code related text and use mainly MacOS (which as far as I know, honors most Emacs shortcuts). Mastering JetBrains shortcuts feel the least appealing to me, since I can't transfer that knowledge to other programs. What are your opinions? Edit: just to clarify, I'm not looking to switch to 100% Vim/Emacs. I'm instead wondering, mastering which shortcuts, will yield the most benefits for my (code)writing skills. I'm not in the mood to setup vim for code editing, and very much happy with JetBrains tools.
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