Re: Using Vim as intended, as a text editor. De-confuse yourself!

On Sat, 01 Mar 2025, 'meine' via vim_use wrote:

> There seems a lot of misinterpretation of Vim, leading to confusion or
> frustration:

indeed.

> Vim is designed as a *text editor* using the keyboard like in the
> beginning of computing.

Au contraire. While one of the strength of Vim is to be used very
efficiently using keyboard on even bare minimum systems, we are not
constrained to do so and we do offer a graphical Vim with all bells and
whistles which means we are explicitly not designing it to avoid using a
mouse or a graphical user interface. In fact some things like resizing
windows are slightly more efficient if you are using the mouse.

So it is perfectly okay to use the mouse if you personally prefer this.
Or use the cursor keys. Or use 'printoptions', after all, that's what it
is for :)

Vim gives you the flexibility to use it how YOU prefer it. Yes it is not
a word processor, but within the given feature set, we don't want to
limit the user on how they want to use it. And that's why we give you
all the options to configure the editor to your liking.

Thanks,
Christian
--
Chinese saying: "He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks."

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