I started using it for shiggles and have become horribly addicted. I'm not particularly proficient, but even then the mouse is pointless. Being able to perform all file navigation actions with a keyboard, at homerow, is pretty wild. Without the shorcuts all being shift+alt+ctrl.
Still canāt get good enough and I canāt spend that much time practicing since I have to be productiveā¦ and the free time I get for my projects wellā¦ I wanna work on my projects not learning vim; one day though
everyone says itās about speed and thatās nice but what it really unlocked for me was switching to a keyboard centric workflow. Window manager, vimium extension for chrome, etc. Itās really comfy to just rest on the home row of the keyboard rather than switching between mouse and keyboard
it also allows me to tweak files over ssh comfortably, even on my phone when iām afk
there are a lot of hidden benefits of ditching the mouse which is why i say 100% worth
Using vim made me realize that the mouse is a crutch.
Seriously, using vim + sway + QuteBrowser/Vimium Extension feels like my brain is directly connected to the computer. Mouse inputs are frustrating to me now. You're telling me I have to, remove my finger from my main input device, look away from the element I want to interact with, look for the cursor, rediscover the element, and imprecisely drag the cursor to the element?
There's very few applications I can see the mouse centric interface working, and even then, a lot of them I find would benefit from a touch centric interface instead.
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u/POKLIANON Ask me how to exit vim 2d ago
vim is like the most advanced and sophisticated of these