

I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen.it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years.your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though).

After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons: I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.īut customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript.
