Vim mode, again (again)
Well, Vim mode is back on.
And, disclaimer: pretty much the only reason I'm writing this is to test out blog writing with Zed's Vim mode. I'm at the end of a long day and am not sure I can put coherent sentences together. So, dear reader, caveat emptor.
When it comes to text editing, it seems I am a pendulum, swinging between the simplicity of the macOS defaults on the one side, and the wizardry of Vim on the other. When I embrace the defaults, text editing feels consistent in virtually every app, from text editors to web browsers, and across my Macs and iPads. I like that.
Yet, as time passes and the defaults start to feel a little too ... default, Vim's depth and finesse become an increasingly shiny lure. And eventually I find myself where I am right at this moment: re-enabling Vim mode.
But both ends of the spectrum have shared one thing: uncertainty. I'd like to feel confident that one option or the other is the right choice for me, and I'm not there yet.
So, this time I'm trying to pay closer attention. Every time I'm happy I have a Vim trick available, I'm going to write it down. Every time Vim mode makes my life more complicated or annoying than it otherwise would have been, I'll write that down, too.
I hope that, if I stick with this, that certainty I'm looking for will begin to emerge.
Or I'll just get bored and Tarzan-swing back to the other side.
(Writing this in Zed's Vim mode was nice, by the way. Good job, Zed!)