I’d like actual examples instead of “I work faster”, something like “I can move straight to the middle of the file with 7mv” or “I can keep 4 different text snippets in memory and paste each with a number+pt, like 2pt”, things that you actually use somewhat frequently instead of what you can do, but probably only did once.
Ooh fun, these all take 2-3 key presses
- Delete the contents inside a function delimiter by {
- Delete the next nine words
- Delete the contents inside long text quotes
And these more/less key presses
- Start a regex search with a single button
- Perform the same edit 100 times in a jagged files (good luck not f’ing up your multi cursor)
But it misses the point, of course every editor can do just about anything, but there is a lot more mouse involved and learning it is more difficult because the keybinds aren’t combinatorial
- Ctrl-shift-}
- How often do you want to delete exactly 9 words? It’s much easier if this is interactive.
- Not a common task IMO.
- Ctrl-F and click a button. This is rare enough that a button click is fine.
- Not sure what you mean by “jagger files” but I find multiple cursors are a lot easier to get right than e.g. regex replace because they give you instant feedback. Vim sequences are more like “oh you got it wrong, better start from scratch”.
1 is just going to highlight right?
2, how about 6 words, 10 words, 100 words
3, 4 I use all the time
5 if your edit locations don’t line up so that you can alt drag a single column, this is what I mean by jagged. I would use a combination of find and repeat action.
Start from scratch - skill issue :p
how about 6 words, 10 words, 100 words
Yes exactly my point. How often do you need to delete exactly 100 words? Do you count them? Obviously not - you probably guess and delete 50, and then 25 and then 20 etc.
