But! Now I'm a different / more "traditional" kind of SWE and I'm really feeling the burden of those extra keystrokes. Getting into Vim mode in an IDE is very helpful. [4/N]
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It's a remarkable thing, when you think about it: you can put text into a magical area where you can retrieve it later. You can edit a bunch of things at once. These are intuitive enough to be popular but require thinking of the program not just as a virtual tablet. [3/N]
What other magic might you want out of a word processor? Since you aren't constrained by the physics of hand movement, you'd want to rethink "motion." What if it were equally easy to move the cursor (i) back one character, (ii) back to the previous whitespace, [4/N]
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(iii) back to the last occurrence of "Jefferson," (iv) back to the last instance of whatever word is under your cursor right now, (v) back to the last blank line, or (iv) [any other reasonable thing you can think of? Many people use (ii) (CTRL+left in various apps). [5/N}
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You will not be surprised to learn that all of these, and many more, are out-of-the-box, one- or two-keystroke commands in Vim (and other such text editors). (OK, (iii) is two keystrokes plus the text you're searching for.) [6/N]
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