> I'm curious about what "decades of UX research" improvements you are talking about
Here's the most important one of them: Don't surprise me. Blend in. Look and behave like other programs.
There are 50 applications on my system. Yours is one of them. If all other applications use 'Ctrl+C' for copying text, but your application uses 'y', then your application is the problem.
What are you talking about? I suspect you haven't used vim recently.
In the context of the command line Ctrl+C sends SIGINT, which usually interrupts/terminates a program. When I press Ctrl+C, vim shows "Type :qa and press <Enter> to exit Vim". All my command line programs handle it as SIGINT. Imposing Ctrl+C as copy would be inconsistent and surprising.
If I'm using Visual Studio with vim keybindings Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V are still copy/paste (I suspect this is because VS provides this and the keybindings don't override it). I think every other editor with vim keybindings I've used preserves this behavior. Ctrl-C as copy is consistent with every other windowed program I'm running. Where have you encountered vim keybindings that don't permit this?
But Nyxt (which is modeled on Emacs, not Vim) would blend in for me. I spend most of my time in Emacs and Firefox; I would prefer a browser that blends in.
I don’t know about 50 applications. The rest of the applications I use are more specialized, and have their own shortcut madness. Browsers ate most of the small stuff.
Thats a basic principle. But when you say decades of UX research you imply actual new ways of doing things
And something innovative and effective would be both self explanatory and actually useful, so it ultimately gets adopted by others instead of simply surprising and confusing people
That would be a problem if vim was installed front and centre on everybody’s computer and they were all expected to use it. That is not the case. You choose to use it, so you either accept, or better yet, embrace that y=copy, or you choose to use something else.
Trying to objectively describe vim as a problem by invoking UX research is very funny.
The end result of that logic is to rule out modal editors altogether.
Vi is several years older than the Ctrl+C shortcut for copy. How could it possibly have know that Ctrl+C would become a more popular choice for copying?
Here's the most important one of them: Don't surprise me. Blend in. Look and behave like other programs.
There are 50 applications on my system. Yours is one of them. If all other applications use 'Ctrl+C' for copying text, but your application uses 'y', then your application is the problem.