Weekly Vim Focus

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by phreeza • 14 years ago

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weaksauce3• 14 years ago

Doesn't take a long time after you remap the arrow keys to be broken of that habit. I love not having to move my hands for the small navigation things now. Highly suggested.

alx• 14 years ago

noremap <Up> <nop>

noremap <Down> <nop>

noremap <Left> <nop>

noremap <Right> <nop>

jacobr• 14 years ago

Isn't that annoying in insert mode?

sbochins2• 14 years ago

I'd recommend against navigating while in insert mode.

microtonal• 14 years ago

'noremap' has no effect on insert mode.

  :help noremap

weaksauce3• 14 years ago

You shouldn't be navigating in insert mode. If you mess up a word it's easier to ctrl-w to delete the last word and retype it.

ww520• 14 years ago

One thing that bothers me and I couldn't find an answer for vi/vim is how do you undo one character at a time? Command u always undo all the text typed since the last insert. Something like ctrl-Z would be great.

trengof• 14 years ago

You can modify undo to chunk based on words with the following:

:inoremap <Space> <Space><C-g>u

wseymour• 14 years ago

Upvote for teaching me about <C-R> to paste in insert mode.

ichinaski• 14 years ago

For a long time user, usage of up/down/left/right should be punished!

phreeza2• 14 years ago

I bow my head in shame and promise to mend my ways.

TheStanman• 14 years ago

Learning how to use "t" was a game-changer for me. Before that, I used "f", which cost me a fair bit of time when deleting things since the extra character was deleted. (c/d)t<space> is a great sequence that I use a lot.

I suggest VimGolf as a way to learn new commands, especially how to use them efficiently. It was how I learned to use "w" and "b", as well as macros.

g3orge2• 14 years ago

<C-R> to paste in insert mode?? That doesn't work for me.

phreeza2• 14 years ago

followed by the register you want to paste. " is the default register you get when usually pasting.

g3orge2• 14 years ago

oh. Thanks.

drats• 14 years ago

For those wishing to ingrain Vim keys into their muscle memory, and improve their browsing experience, I recommend the Vimium[1] extension to Chrome. Additionally, Firefox has Vimperator[2] and Opera has VimOperate[3] (not as many features on the latter unfortunately).

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh... [2]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/?s... [3]https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/vimope...

sbochins2• 14 years ago

pentadactyl is the best vim keybinding plugin for firefox now. It used to be vimperator though. Check it out http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

andylei• 14 years ago

whats better about pentadactyl

yabai• 14 years ago

When starting with Vim I completely changed all of the software that I interact with. That means: mutt for email, vimperator, vimprobable or vim plugin for chrome, mocp with vim keybindings, newsbeuter and dwm with simple keybindings.

After getting comfortable with this setup, I find it is now a pain to drop down to use the arrow keys. This type of setup really helped me 'convert' to a vi way of thinking. I am still learning, but am liking the minimal setup.

un1xl0ser• 14 years ago

I didn't use the hjkl keys until two things happened, about the same time. The first was getting a job as an SA, where on older (and less GNU) operating systems would NOT support the key mappings.

The second was once my job was automated, I got to play a bit of nethack. A text based game that uses that style of navigation did help a bit.

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