recently watched a guy coding in vim and it struck me just how abysmally slow he was compared to a regular gui editor.
occasionally pulling off some cool nerd shit with external tool invokes but for a lot of the basic navigation and selection tasks being performed several times a minute it was waaaaaaaay slower.
(please miss me with the "skill issue, I'm a speed demon with this shit" takes, yes I know you all love these editors and will be very offended that I deigned to mildly denigrate them)
the main thing I took away from it was that it's probably slower for a lot of people but also maybe that's ok? like, if you enjoy the vibes of going oldschool hackerman with the complicated textual editor thingy, then that's cool.
@gsuberland
So as someone said already, typing/editing speed is never my bottleneck.
But also, I spend a lot of time editing on remote systems through a terminal. And it's just easier to use the same editor locally as well.
I'd like vscode better if I could open multiple editor panes side by side, rearrange them, and switch between them - all with keyboard, not mouse. IDEs in general are too mouse-dependent for me.
@jannem there are commands you can bind for that:
workbench.action.navigateLeft
workbench.action.navigateRight
workbench.action.navigateUp
workbench.action.navigateDown
workbench.action.moveEditorToNextGroup
workbench.action.moveEditorToPreviousGroup
workbench.action.moveEditorToAboveGroup
workbench.action.moveEditorToBelowGroup
workbench.action.moveEditorToFirstGroup
workbench.action.moveEditorToLastGroup
some of these have default hotkeys, like ctrl-shift-arrow left/right moving panes around
@jannem I don't actually use vscode much but I do have those set up to act like the win+arrow behaviours. there are a bunch of guides on setting them up to mirror vim / tmux too.
