As someone who's been a software developer for over a decade and in IT even longer, I still don't use vi/vim for anything other than when crontabs have it set as the editor.

[–] Hexarei 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Honestly if you don't use vim motions in your ide of choice, you're missing out big time. Being able to do things like "Delete everything inside these parentheses". di( or "wrap this line and the two lines below r in a pair of {}" ys2j{ , or "swap this parameter with the next one" cxia]a. with a single shortcut is game changing.

Even just being able to repeat an action a number of times is ridiculously useful. I use relative line numbers, so I can see how many lines away a target is and just go "I need to move down 17 lines" and hit 17j.

Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like

Those tasks are a very small part of work time, so most people don't feel the need to optimize it.

[–] Hexarei 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a software dev, they're significant parts of what I do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you one of those rare developers who spend most of their day actually coding?