Re: vim and touch typing

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2015-10-07 02:57, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> I disagree 100% with the notion that you cannot use Vim unless you
>> already know how to touch-type.
>
> While I wouldn't go so far as to claim that you *must* learn to
> touch-type before you learn to use vim, I find the orthogonality
> mirrors that of vim. The more touch-typing you learn (or the more
> vim motions you learn), the more proficient your editing. The more
> vim you learn (or the more vim actions/commands you learn), the more
> proficient your editing. But combine them and you get multiplicative
> benefits, not just linear increase in benefits.
>
> -tim

This is more reasonable. Yes, even though I don't "touch-type" in the
usual sense of the word, I think that what you say is plausible. But
at least two readers of this list (me included ;-) ) would stop
reading then and there if a self-styled "Vim textbook" told us that if
we cannot touch-type it is forbidden, or hopeless, or impossible, for
us to learn to use Vim before we have mastered touch-typing *first*.
Yes, I suppose that touch-typing *and* Vim make your editing more
efficient, in a cooperative way; but my point was that neither is an
absolute prerequisite, to be learnt well before even thinking of
tackling the other.

Best regards,
Tony.

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