have you ever wanted to turn a 30 second text file edit into a 15 minute code golf exercise? well now you can, with Vim: the official editor of autistic transfemmes. making text editing unnecessarily complicated since 1991

(I actually really really like Vim. I don’t know if it actually saves me effort 90% of the time but it just brings me autistic joy to type some arcane shit like :'<,'>norm ^f(ci("foo"^]A; and have that actually do something useful)

@kasdeya From memory, when formal studies were done people *feel* more productive with Vim but actually get more done with the mouse.

@iris_meredith omg interesting! I would love to read those studies if you happen to find them again. I’m ngl that would not surprise me at all

@iris_meredith @kasdeya I'm not giving up Helix, I will let myself be wrong on this one lol

@kasdeya I will see what I can find, though there is a significant risk that I'll forget.

@iris_meredith thank you! ^_^ it’s totally fine if you forget though

@kasdeya "That's amazing! You type random characters and it does what you want!" -- my then-girlfriend watching me use Vim

@kasdeya @iris_meredith Dan Luu looked into this and found that the evidence is decidedly more mixed: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/