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This is Your Brain on Vim
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- agscala 16y agoIn case you are planning on reading this and haven't done so yet, be warned there is a lack of any form of meaningful information in this article
- hieronymusN 16y agoI found it informative.. in an anthropological sense...
- St-Clock 16y agoSorry, i'm probably weird, but I could see my vim experience described quite accurately in this post. It was funny and disturbing at the same time. I particularly enjoyed: "hjkl movement becomes natural. you mysteriously lose the ability to ice skate" "oh balls. my .vimrc isn’t on the mainframez so all my cool shit is gone when I ssh to edit some configs." "publishes obligatory blog post about how special and unique setup is"
- stevek 16y agoYes, it's mostly for entertainment value. However, I didn't previously know about the commmand-t plugin. It made the read worthwhile, independent of entertainment.
- cstross 16y agoAaagh! I finished reading that in Firefox, instinctively hit <esc>1w to go back to the top, swore, and found myself typing :prev. I'm clearly doomed.
- jokermatt999 16y agoGet Pentadactyl! (a fork of Vimperator) It adds vim-like navigation to Firefox. Granted, 1w won't work, but a good deal of other shortcuts do. There's a handy shortcut to edit any textbox in Vim also, but I can't recall what it is. I seriously cannot recommend this addon enough; it completely changed my browsing experience. http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ Edit: Fixed spelling, added link.
- jodrellblank 16y agoI tried switching vimperator for pentadactyl today and found some unpleasant buggy behaviour. Will try again when not so many tabs open and uninstalled it. Turns out what I use most is 'd' to close tabs and 'u' to unclose them. Most of the rest of vimperator passes me by except when I fight the modal/passthrough/where the hell are my keypresses going moments.
- jtaby 16y agoIf "the road to nowhere" was an article, it would be this article.
- silentbicycle 16y agoWow, another article about identifying with a text editor. It's almost completely devoid of useful information, at that. Flagged. I'd like to see an article on using vi's ex mode to its fullest potential - there's a lot of power there, and many people seem completely unaware it exists.