Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:45PM (1 child)
I do large amounts of writing without looking at the screen. Not possible without key commands.
Even things like looking down and scrolling until I get the button to send and email is very annoying when I can do [control]ENTER to send. And ARROW keys are usually so much faster than moving your hand off the keyboard to the mouse and having to position it on a word is cumbersome and requires mental energy..
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:08PM
That is what I loved about Brief, was keyboard based everything - even window size adjustments.
However, much of that was due to the limited nature of EVERYTHING back then, I don't think that Brief's window system would scale well to dual 4K displays...
Also, just now, I wanted to move an e-mail recipient from the To: field to the CC: field (not the height of noble scientific pursuit, I'll grant, but still a task that wants doing), and with the GUI I can click and drag it, even in Gmail in Chrome... I'd rather not muscle-memory train a 6 key sequence to do the same thing, particularly since I probably only do such a thing once every few weeks...
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