If I remember correctly, he was hacker-typing it as he went, top to bottom, whic...

DennisP · on May 17, 2015

Movies should get vim or emacs experts to type their code, it'd be a lot more impressive.

stavros · on May 17, 2015

Eh, we still type at an average speed in insert mode :-P

DennisP · on May 17, 2015

If you're staying in insert mode you don't qualify as a vim expert.

Rapid-fire editing with text objects, dot, macros, column mode, :norm, and so on ought to work pretty well on screen.

stavros · on May 17, 2015

Yeah, not when you're typing a stream of code.

DennisP · on May 17, 2015

Well obviously that's not what I'm proposing to show.

moe · on May 18, 2015

Rapid-fire editing with text objects [...] ought to work pretty well on screen.

I wish they'd just do away with the rapid-fire crap altogether. It breaks the immersion. A mildly witty easter egg does not compensate for making every nerd in the audience of your nerd-movie cringe...

Just show some realistic typing, with mistakes and perhaps a quick copy/paste.

DennisP · on May 18, 2015

I'm not saying anything extreme, just something realistic for an accomplished vimmer, which is impressive enough and would do the opposite of making nerds cringe.