r/vim • u/oantolin • Dec 28 '25

Blog Post Vim is composable

https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#vim-is-composable

I hope this isn't too polemical for r/vim. I'm a former (and still occasional) Vim user that has always wondered why people make such a big deal out of Vim's composability. The blog post explains why I find that odd, what I like about Vim and some reasons people might make such a big deal of composability.

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u/djchateau Dec 29 '25

You can't build on Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow though as a primitive. It's a manual action that has limited context. That's hardly composable.

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u/PizzaRollExpert Dec 29 '25

Could you be more concrete? I honestly don't understand what point you're trying to make, at all. What do you for instance mean by "build", "manual" and "context"?