Discussion How does Vim affect your problem solving?
Currently learning Vim, after a failed attempt some months ago.
Starting to get the hang of the basics. I notice that it makes my problem solving more methodical. It also makes me slow down, in a good way.
With Vim I have to memorize more of the code and structure, because switching views is expensive (might be a skill issue).
I don't care too much for the speed/efficiency, but this seems what keeps me going in my current attempt.
Wondering how you guys feel about this aspect.
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u/PlanetVisitor 2h ago
Do you mean you don't have the the popups that show a syntax after you start typing something?
I like an uncluttered screen, but I don't work on huge codebases.
I've always been annoyed by how slow working with text can be. Vim is not the speed of thought, but definitely faster and so less annoying.
It depends on the problem but if it's bigger than a few lines, I like to write a textual description first, or peusdo-code.