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> Is there a kind of vim psychology??? ;)
>
> I am interested in answers as I am interested in questions... :)
I don't recall making a choice, but if I did, it was likely dictated by
such considerations as the portability of vi across UNIX systems.
I must say that at first I was not too fond of continually having to hit
'i' to switch to insert mode and the Escape key to return to normal
mode. Felt like a lot of unnecessary extra work.. But I was young and
foolish so I stuck with it and kept Notepadding my Vim and cussing every
time I forgot to hit the Escape key.
It took a couple of years before I began to understand the cleverness of
Vim's design. Having a default 'normal' mode where hundreds of editing
commands only require pressing a couple of keys one at a time with *no
modifiers involved* was a stroke of genius.. in this perspective, the
minimal overhead caused by mode-switching is a very small price to pay.
As to a 'Vim psychology'.. I don't know.. maybe.. same as programmers,
it might boil down to 'laziness, impatience, and hubris'.
:-)
cj
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