Btw, did you know that ctrl/shift-arrow editors are also different? This also has something to do with my vim preference.
When you use it, either in a text field or in an editor, there’s a little uncertainty where ctrl-stops are and how the cursor behaves regarding EOL. Is symbol/char a ctrl boundary? Does it jump forwards at the same positions like backwards? If I move up to a shorter line, will it retain a column index and an EOL flag? If I <End>, does it have EOL flag at all? Which way do you select whole lines? Home shift-down? Home home shift-down? Ctrl-L? You want to select whole lines to not deal with extra indent on paste. Or does an editor fix that?
There are lots of editors that behave differently. Almost all of them.
What bug me in it, is that you now have to wait for ctrl-arrow to finish somewhere, but you don’t know where. So, combined with a high repeat rate (which you want unless you like watching a snail to run or paint to dry) it becomes a release-timely game. I definitely remember struggling with that when I still used windows-style editors.
It would be not an issue if I chose one and used it. But they die or get ancient wrt useful plugins so quickly. Norton, borland, ulti-something, notepad++, various IDEs, linux zoo, sublime, atom, vscode. There’s no end to it. One decade and it’s either “obsolete” or requires a high-end ssd to just start.
When you use it, either in a text field or in an editor, there’s a little uncertainty where ctrl-stops are and how the cursor behaves regarding EOL. Is symbol/char a ctrl boundary? Does it jump forwards at the same positions like backwards? If I move up to a shorter line, will it retain a column index and an EOL flag? If I <End>, does it have EOL flag at all? Which way do you select whole lines? Home shift-down? Home home shift-down? Ctrl-L? You want to select whole lines to not deal with extra indent on paste. Or does an editor fix that?
There are lots of editors that behave differently. Almost all of them.
What bug me in it, is that you now have to wait for ctrl-arrow to finish somewhere, but you don’t know where. So, combined with a high repeat rate (which you want unless you like watching a snail to run or paint to dry) it becomes a release-timely game. I definitely remember struggling with that when I still used windows-style editors.
It would be not an issue if I chose one and used it. But they die or get ancient wrt useful plugins so quickly. Norton, borland, ulti-something, notepad++, various IDEs, linux zoo, sublime, atom, vscode. There’s no end to it. One decade and it’s either “obsolete” or requires a high-end ssd to just start.