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Vim-style modal editing
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 6 threads.
People raised many different problems with Vim-style modal editing, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Moving the cursor across large distances with the keyboard is awkward, needing plugins or repeated keys2024-10-24
- Jumping pages by keyboard makes the user lose their visual position on the page2022-10-09
- Slash key needs two keys or the number pad on some layouts2021-04-18
- Modal editing feels unusable to the commenter on modern keyboards2018-11-22
- Keyboard-based aiming and firing would be frustrating, making wrong guesses and forcing re-entry of coordinates2018-02-09
- Switching between keyboard and mouse interrupts concentration and is annoying2010-08-26