• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Honestly if you don’t use vim motions in your ide of choice, you’re missing out big time. Being able to do things like “Delete everything inside these parentheses”. di( or “wrap this line and the two lines below in a pair of {}” ys2j{ , or “swap this parameter with the next one” cxia]a. with a single shortcut is game changing.

    I read things like this and feel like I do a different type of coding than everyone else does. I’m not generating code at this speed.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah exactly this, the main bottleneck when writing code is either reading the existing code or thinking about how I want to implement some logic, not how I move my cursor and writing the code itself.