do I get brownie points for being a little freak that wrote my dissertation in vim

@cam I wrote every line of code in grad school in vim

@wallhackio ok show off

@cam cat had to sit me down for like an hour and show me how to configure it so I stood on the shoulders of giants

@wallhackio I had a friend who used vim who showed me the basics but I’m actually a hipster loser that uses neovim. I honestly don’t remember why I switched I think there was a plogon I wanted to use that was only for neovim

@wallhackio I’m honestly not that technically proficient in vim for how long I’ve used it but I did get a plugin once that shows a message at the bottom of the screen like “you typed d$ when you could’ve typed D you dumb bitch” (in nicer words than that) that helped me remember to be less stupid

@cam @wallhackio Do you remember what the extension was called? It might be useful to me, I am stupid and probably do some things wrong in Vim...

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio oh, this is actually the one I switched to nvim for. It’s called hardtime.nvim, it also blocks input for a second or so after you use one of h, j, k or l too many times in succession to punish you (like typing jjjjj instead of 5j or using h and l to scroll across a line instead of w, e, b)

it’s based off of a regular vimscript plugin that literally entirely bans (successive inputs of?) hjkl which is a bit too extreme for my taste lol

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I lied, there is also a hardtime-vim with the hjkl timeout but I don’t think it offers suggestions like “you used $a when you could’ve used A, you used li when you could’ve used a, you used di(i when you could’ve used ci(“ etc. etc.

@cam @wallhackio What does ( do?

@vaporeon_ Do you think maybe the questions you put behind this CW feel stupid to you because you think any gap in your knowledge is representative of a personal failing?

@amy It is a personal failure on my part not to know it despite Vim being my main text editor for over a decade or more

@vaporeon_ @amy this statement is wrong