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

这绝对是值得努力的。

使用Vi(m)的人会告诉您一个明显的原因,还有两个原因人们似乎从来没有提到过。

这是一个显而易见的例子:

Vi无处不在,功能强大得令人难以置信,通过学习一次,您就可以在几乎任何有键盘的计算机上使用这种功能。

下面是学习Vim的一些鲜为人知的原因:

It's not half as much effort as you think it's going to be. Run through the Vim tutor once (vimtutor at a shell, or in Windows run it from the Vim folder in the Start Menu), and you'll already be well on your way to competence, and it's all downhill from there. I was up to the level where I could use Vim at work without taking any noticeable productivity hit within less than a week's worth of lunchtimes. It's fun! Editing text is like a game to me now. I actively enjoy it--which is pretty ridiculous, when you think about it.

还有两个不学习Vim的好理由:

它会让人上瘾,你会发现自己希望在所有的计算中都能使用Vim命令,而每当不能使用时就会诅咒。幸运的是,至少在某些情况下,有一些方法可以绕过这个问题。 同样,它会让人上瘾,尽管您不会因为实际使用Vim而失去任何生产力,但您将浪费数小时搜索使您的Vim体验更好的好提示,并阅读Stack Overflow上的Vim标签。

其他回答

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

这取决于您想用VIM做什么。仅仅因为许多人离不开它而学习它是没有意义的。

当我经常在UNIX环境中工作时,我不能没有它。即使VIM没有安装在UNIX机器上,我也至少可以使用vi。您总是可以依赖它——即使这台机器不是您的(来自客户的)。

现在我用c#编程,主要在windows环境下工作。我在我的电脑上安装了VIM…我不需要它

评估您是否真的需要VIM,以及它是否支持您的“工作流程”。试试吧。玩它。如果你认为你需要它,就坚持下去……学习曲线非常陡峭。

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。

我已经使用vi/vim超过25年了。如果你已经知道一些命令行编辑器,那么你可能不需要学习vi/vim。但是如果您不太了解其他命令行编辑器,那么学习它是值得的。在vi/vim中很容易轻松地提高效率。

不要被命令的数量吓到,我还没有遇到过使用最多几十个命令的人。我发现它是不可或缺的,因为当我想到代码时,我想到的是文本,转到思考鼠标只会把我弄糊涂。最大的技巧,我认为,是一次学习一点,不要犹豫,玩玩-撤销功能是很好的探索它的行为。

此外,如果您深入了解它,vim是可编写脚本的。可能性是无限的。

(是的,所有这些也适用于emacs…)