As a programmer I spend a lot of hours at the keyboard and I've been doing it for the last 12 years, more or less. If there's something I've never gotten used to during all this time, it's these annoying and almost unconscious constant micro-interruptions I experience while coding, due to some of the most common code editing tasks. Things like a simple copy & paste from a different line (or even the same line), or moving 1 or 2 lines up or down from the current position require too much typing or involve the use of the arrow keys ...and it gets worse when I want to move further - I end up using the mouse. Now imagine this same scenario but on a laptop.

我一直在考虑学习VIM,但掌握它所需的时间总是让我想后退一步。

我想听听那些学会了它的人的意见,如果它最终成为你生活中不可或缺的东西之一。

在工作中,我使用VS2008, c#和r#,它们一起使编辑代码比以前更快更容易,但即使如此,我认为我可以享受根本不需要使用鼠标。

甚至连方向键都没有。


当前回答

I too put off learning vi or vim for many years. Matter of fact, I use to make fun of the "vi guys" who always seemed to be doing finger aerobics. Then, as I moved away from Windows and over to Linux as my primary OS, I had to become more familiar with vim. It was a learning curve and it still is. After 9 years of using vim on a daily basis I still find myself learning new and faster ways of doing things. What I use to think of as "finger aerobics" actually turned out to be an extremely efficient way of being productive. I can now do a whole lot more code development in a whole lot less time and effort than I ever did prior to vim. And as I'm sure you know vim runs on about every platform out there so you always have it when you need it. Also, if you like GUI's they have GUI versions for most platforms. Personally, just like the mouse, I don't want to see a menu bar, scroll bars, etc. cluttering up my editing window(s).

如果你决定尝试一下vim,我强烈推荐O'Reilly的《vi Editor Pocket Reference》一书。它很便宜,如果你只是学习vi (vim),它是很棒的。完整的vim书籍也很好,但口袋参考给你所有的基础知识,快速高效。

其他回答

不。学习vim比努力更有价值。

首先,良好的vi(m)知识将节省您在被围困的服务器上紧急编辑配置文件的时间。它可以支持延迟的ssh连接。

管理的东西除了vim的输入法将是你最好的防御腕管,如果你有效地使用它与人体工程学键盘。

要了解vim的意义,最好的方法是在家里开始一个休闲的项目,拔掉鼠标插头,用胶带遮住方向键。

阅读帮助

我开始喜欢上vi,是因为我看到有人非常熟练地使用vi,以极快的速度进行编辑。你真的可以用它快速编码。我喜欢它的另一个原因是,有时我发现在IDE中鼠标移动一段时间后真的很疼我的手,而vi提供了一个很好的改变。正如其他人所提到的,它几乎总是在unix系统上可用,即使在糟糕的连接上也能很好地工作。

我没有看到有人提到的一件事是,了解vi在某些圈子里有“极客信誉”的额外好处。我能想到至少有一些人在看到一个新程序员启动nedit来对文件做一些更改时会暗自发笑。

我对我的textpad和ecplise世界很满意,直到我不得不开始在linux下运行的服务器上工作。需要远程脚本和配置文件的设置!

一开始很难,但现在我可以轻松地设置和调整我的服务器。

仅在Unix系统上,Vim的惊人的普遍性,以及vi克隆的更惊人的普遍性,就足以使它值得学习。

除此之外,我认为整个vi式的思维方式让我变得更有效率。对于一个不习惯命令模式和插入模式等模式的人来说,仅仅为了插入文本而进入一个模式似乎有点过分。但是,当一个人已经使用Vim几个月,并且已经学习了相当多的技巧和技巧时,Vim似乎是一项值得的资产。

当然,关于Emacs风格的思维,Emacs人群也说了同样的话,但我放弃了学习Emacs,因为Vim更简单,而且为我做了这项工作。