Re: OT: The so called "steep learning curve" of vim...

Both Vim and GVim have menubars with menus and submenus and, in
addition, a popup menu that, at least for a very beginner, covers
(maybe) 90% of what they may want to do (once they've got
basic modal editing down).
Though, it is also true that they will quickly out grow the
menus and rapidly want to do something that requires a little
deeper knowledge.

Richard

On 09/30/2012 06:37 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is often said, taht certain software has a "steep learning curve".
> Vi/vim is such an example for the use of this phrase...
>
> I was thinking of this phrase and the graph I would draw if I had
> to show an example for such a "steep learning curve"...
>
> I would take the time as measure for the x-axis and the amount
> of stuff I have learned about -- for example -- vim as a measure
> for the y-axis..
> Then I would draw that "steep learning curve" as an graph
> which goes -- say -- from 0,0 to 5,30.
>
> And watching this graph I would read it as
> "Using vim give one a great amount of knowledge in a very short time."
>
> So....why so many take this as a point of critic???
>
> Using software which a needs a lot of time to learn
> much lesser ... that is the problem I think...!
>
> Or...what do I misinterpret here? ;)
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>

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