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> powerful new tools to edit that have no WYSIWYG equivalent Can you give an example? I have heard this but I have difficulty understanding exactly what I cou

by skohan 7y ago

> powerful new tools to edit that have no WYSIWYG equivalent Can you give an example? I have heard this but I have difficulty understanding exactly what I could do in Vim that I couldn't do in Sublime Text for example

DavidTNcl 7y ago
3dw
__s 7y ago
Does Sublime support macros? Macros are particularly useful when fixing up semi structured text (like converting a CSV into SQL) Even then, macros kind of have to be keyboard based, as the keyboard presents a straight forward serialization format. Similar to how macros in non-Lisp languages struggle to achieve an elegance you can't quite capture unless your language is literally a textual AST But there's also the random things because there's so much. Like ~ to swap case, or Ctrl-A/O for increment/decrement. I find myself in non-vim editors typing "dd" all too often
ur-whale 7y ago
3 Shift+y 3 j p 3 >> time yourself doing the same thing in sublime.
twh270 7y ago
It's not that you "can't" do certain things in Sublime. But Sublime and other "normal" editors have only a few primitives in terms of editing and moving, whereas vim has a language that lets you compose more complex commands from a set of primitives. The general form of a vim command is: (repeat)(verb)(motion/object) That is, I want to perform 'verb' 'repeat' times on a 'motion' or 'object'. Examples: fX == 'f'ind the next occurrence of character 'X' 3fX == repeat 'fX' 3 times w == go to the next word on the line 3w == repeat 'w' 3 times, i.e. go 3 words right dw == delete word 3dw == delete 3 words dfs == delete to the next occurrence of 's' yw == "yank" (copy to the buffer) the next word y3w == yank the next 3 words to the buffer H, M, L == move the cursor to the top, middle, or bottom of the screen zz == center the current line of text in the editor window. 8j == move the cursor 8 lines down ma == create a bookmark 'a' `a == go to bookmark 'a' "ay == yank to buffer 'a' "ap == paste buffer 'a' . == repeat the last editing command (insert, delete, yank...) I like vim because its commands are both efficient and precise. I don't need to look and make sure the cursor is at the right position or that I've selected what I want to cut/copy correctly. I know it's correct because I typed it in. And I don't need to move my hand to the mouse or arrow keys. And bookmarks and buffers are great.

by skohan 7y ago

DavidTNcl 7y ago

3dw

__s 7y ago

Does Sublime support macros? Macros are particularly useful when fixing up semi structured text (like converting a CSV into SQL) Even then, macros kind of have to be keyboard based, as the keyboard presents a straight forward serialization format. Similar to how macros in non-Lisp languages struggle to achieve an elegance you can't quite capture unless your language is literally a textual AST But there's also the random things because there's so much. Like ~ to swap case, or Ctrl-A/O for increment/decrement. I find myself in non-vim editors typing "dd" all too often

ur-whale 7y ago

3 Shift+y 3 j p 3 >> time yourself doing the same thing in sublime.

twh270 7y ago

It's not that you "can't" do certain things in Sublime. But Sublime and other "normal" editors have only a few primitives in terms of editing and moving, whereas vim has a language that lets you compose more complex commands from a set of primitives. The general form of a vim command is: (repeat)(verb)(motion/object) That is, I want to perform 'verb' 'repeat' times on a 'motion' or 'object'. Examples: fX == 'f'ind the next occurrence of character 'X' 3fX == repeat 'fX' 3 times w == go to the next word on the line 3w == repeat 'w' 3 times, i.e. go 3 words right dw == delete word 3dw == delete 3 words dfs == delete to the next occurrence of 's' yw == "yank" (copy to the buffer) the next word y3w == yank the next 3 words to the buffer H, M, L == move the cursor to the top, middle, or bottom of the screen zz == center the current line of text in the editor window. 8j == move the cursor 8 lines down ma == create a bookmark 'a' `a == go to bookmark 'a' "ay == yank to buffer 'a' "ap == paste buffer 'a' . == repeat the last editing command (insert, delete, yank...) I like vim because its commands are both efficient and precise. I don't need to look and make sure the cursor is at the right position or that I've selected what I want to cut/copy correctly. I know it's correct because I typed it in. And I don't need to move my hand to the mouse or arrow keys. And bookmarks and buffers are great.