I’ve written a few posts on dabbling with Vim mode and struggling to choose between it and the macOS defaults. I think Vim mode is pulling ahead. Here are some quick notes on this in lieu of thoughtful ones. Predictably, Vim mode is feeling more and more natural to me the more I use it, which means I miss it more and more when I’m not using it. It’s not just the Vim movements I miss, as I’m pretty fast at moving around with the defaults. It’s more stuff like: these things (I’m guessing there’s a name for this class of operations but not sure what it is): dt{char} to “delete 'til” a character; similarly, ct{char} to change until a character; ci{object} to “change inside” a pair of text objects, like parentheses, brackets, etc.; yi{object} to “yank” (copy) inside a pair of text objects, and ya{object} to yank around (including) them; I love that you don’t need your cursor inside the objects to use the inside and around commands; . to redo the last edit at the current cursor position; J…
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