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OK, so what the hell is VIM?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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It's a modal text editor, where you switch between different modes for editing text. There is a mode for typing that behaves like a normal text editor. There is also a command mode, which is what most people struggle with. Instead of typing, your key strokes perform different actions to manipulate the cursor position and the text around it.
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You're forgetting the most important 'feature', as the two mile wide landmine belt in front of the 10 mile high completely shear faced cliff that is the VI learning curve it defaults in command mode so that newbies can't even edit a file before discovering they have no way to quit other than closing the terminal.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The mere existance of tutorials on how to type a "hello vim" file says everything about the user hostile sadism that its creators revel in.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I guess we could say the same thing about programming, learning to speak a new language, or touch typing. Some tools require you to put in some effort to learn.
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These: Vim[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Vim is an AWSOME editor and is so much more productive while editing. Last time I tried VSVim, it had horrible non-vim key mappings, and I didn't try to sort it out. I HAVE taken the time to sort out the non-standard behavior of gVim and regularly use it for editing tasks.
I am not sure how you do you pair programming sessions, but it sounds like you are taking control of his keyboard, but don't know how to use vim? That would definitely cause problems. If HE wasn't able to do those tasks well, then I would suspect the non-standard key mapping in VsVim as it is quite easy to delete lines and copy to/from the windows clipboard.
Personally, I don't like remote pair programming, or pair programming except in certain circumstances where you would benefit from anothers' input, and then only in-person where one person "drives" and the other contributes only verbally.
I like vim for these reasons:
movement keys (for movement in any situation, including selection),
multiple copy buffers,
multiple macros (via the keyboard with no mousing around),
search and replace is better than VS,
I don't have to reach for the arrow keys/home/end/delete/pageup/pagedown (only have to reach for esc).
I often copy whole pages of code or SQL into vim for editing, then paste the result back to VS.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Why?
Because I want to have a good editor within an IDE. Helps with RSI, reduces stress...
Marc Clifton wrote: Why would you cripple an amazing IDE with Vim?
How is the IDE "crippled" with Vim? Is any of the IDE features not working when you install VsVim?
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When I let someone use my computer in visual studio with VsVim installed, I just go into insert mode. Pretty simple. If they don't do that for you all you have to do is hit the "i" key. Once you're in insert mode it's the same as editing in notepad.
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It's just a question of habit. When I was younger and used Linux, a mix of lack of drivers, PC with parts produced in Elbonia and Sokovia, outdated distros and lack of any Internet connection I couldn't start the system in graphic mode.
Most of the editing of configuration files had to be done via console, and it was either EMACS or VIM. At first they were both terrible and I hated them, but then I started getting the hang of vim and was extremely productive with it. Also in the forced pair programming sessions during high school I was able to avoid the keyboard stealing from my deskmate.
Moving to windowes programming, the first and as of now only serious programming job, I use VS of course. But as text editor I discovered Notepad++ and I can say I'm in love with a software. Especially the power of comparing two views in the same screen and bind them to the same scrolling controls - I made a lot of data analysis with only Notepad++.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Because after years of using it to edit in, you'll find yourself too brain damaged to use anything else. /trollface
PS Vim users say the same about those of us in the IDE camp. /trollface^2
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There are quite a few intelligent people in the UK.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You wouldn't think it most of the time though: apparently 15~16 million people vote on the "X Factor" each year... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Remarkably, that's the same number as the population North of Scotch Corner...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That seems a little unlikely. Only 5.9 million watched the last final so unless there are 10 million people voting without having actually seen the performances ....
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I don't know which worries me most: the numbers, or the fact that you know them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In my defence I only know them because of the ratings war with the show I'm watching when I'm not watching X-Factor which became a major issue in the Government's review of the BBC earlier in the year.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yes.
We Believe You.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Didn't 15-16 people vote leave? We should be told!
veni bibi saltavi
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Does Sean Connery arrive at Wimbledon around Tennish?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or does he prefer to stay in Scotland, these days?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Only y'all would have the balls to post this; you ain't gonna net love from the rest of us ball boys & gals.
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I think we'll let that one out to grass. Have you got one less than 30-40 years old?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yes, and when he arrives he makes a racket.
/ravi
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