There's a lot more physical movement involved in the end/ctrl+backspace method, even though it's fewer keystrokes.
The big thing with Vim's modal editing is that it allows you to have keyboard shortcuts involving keys that aren't way off in the boonies. Some examples:
* / or ? to search for text
* dd to delete the current line
* Stuff like ciw or ci" will delete a word or the contents of a double-quoted string, and drop you into insert mode. I use this one constantly.
When prompted, people try to come up with really crazy complex things, but frankly the bigger thing is just being able to actually reach things.
If I tried to use shortcuts in other editors to the extent that I do in vim, my hands would constantly be in pain. This is why I never got into emacs, though I've seen some folks be terrifyingly fast with it as well.
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There's a lot more physical movement involved in the end/ctrl+backspace method, even though it's fewer keystrokes.
The big thing with Vim's modal editing is that it allows you to have keyboard shortcuts involving keys that aren't way off in the boonies. Some examples:
* / or ? to search for text
* dd to delete the current line
* Stuff like ciw or ci" will delete a word or the contents of a double-quoted string, and drop you into insert mode. I use this one constantly.
When prompted, people try to come up with really crazy complex things, but frankly the bigger thing is just being able to actually reach things.
If I tried to use shortcuts in other editors to the extent that I do in vim, my hands would constantly be in pain. This is why I never got into emacs, though I've seen some folks be terrifyingly fast with it as well.