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Why not use "jk" or "jj"?

• lunchladydoris 10y ago
  Discovering this really changed Vim for me. That and remapping j and k to move over visual lines instead of logical lines.
• Rusky 10y ago
  Personally that slows down normal usage of j too much for me.
  • ngokevin 10y ago
    It doesn't have an effect if you type a single `j`.
• jcl 10y ago
  These can be convenient if you are only entering text manually. But remapping regular -- albeit rare -- text sequences can have unexpected results when pasting copied content into insert mode in a terminal window. I've been bitten by this a couple times when pasting base64-encoded data.
  • nick_g 10y ago
    This has caught me as well, but it can be avoided by using `:set paste!` to toggle paste mode before pasting. This isn't something I need to worry about often enough but you can map that command if pasting external content is something you do often.
    • marklgr 10y ago
      Most terminals support bracketed paste, and vim can automatically toggle pastemode based on the special sequences. Eg. https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste
• eqyiel 10y ago
  What if you want to write "Dijkstra"?
  • tommorris 10y ago
    Then you need to switch to Dutch mode...
  • WildUtah 10y ago
    That's why i use kj. (Also: quaternions)
  • farresito 10y ago
    Then you wait one second after pressing j (until the timeout is over) and press k.
    • chillee 10y ago
      To be quite honest, that sounds terrible.
      • farresito 10y ago
        I don't think it's bad at all. I very rarely have to write 'jk', and using that combination saves me from having to either reach the escape key or having to use c-[. If the price I have to pay is waiting 0.5s (which is what I have the timeout configured to) once in a while, then I consider this a great tradeoff.
        • minitech 10y ago
          Caps Lock is one key, easier to type, and even more rarely used, though. I highly recommend it. =)
          • chillee 10y ago
            That's what I use too :). I also highly recommend it. I would strongly recommend binding either escape or ctrl to caps lock on every keyboard.
• WildUtah 10y ago
  :ino kj <Esc> :ino <Esc> <Nop> Try it for a week; you'll love it.
• flukus 10y ago
  I've been using <leader><space> lately, with space as the leader key so just <space><space> really, it's worked well so far.