Thanks to everyone for their replies. I will try to answer your questions and clarify some things.
I have been able to touch type with eight fingers at 100wpm for a long time now so I am fine in that respect. Once I understand how a certain command works I find it quite easy to commit to muscle memory. I'm quite happy to learn and use vimscript if you believe that is the way to go. By "when I know what I am doing" I am in fact referring to my understanding of certain commands in particular situations e.g. using v or V when selecting text. If I already know the command it is much faster and I am happier in vim. Some of the things that frustrate me the most in vim are: Copying and pasting text from outside of the editor. E.g. modifying an HTML page by swapping odd bits of text from another document. It just feels clunky to me and I often find myself using eclipse instead. If I have an class that I want to call a method of I generally like to know what the overloads are and the order of the parameters. I've got used to using intellisense in VS. I don't know if it just laziness that I would like it or if people normally require it or not. "Peeking" at files real quick seems like a lot of work. Normally I do vsplit :o file.ext them Ctrl w w to change to the split, take a quick look and :q. This problem normally arises when browsing an unfamiliar repo. I have NERDtree but I don't think I'm using it enough. This is where the mouse and eclipse come in. I tend to move through a tree of files faster with a mouse. (I do apologise if I replied incorrectly. I've read the rules, but I am new to mailing lists!) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
