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If you code full time just force yourself to use it. Disable arrow keys in the .vimrc. Find the most common 5 procedures you use in your current editor and writ
by dokem 5y ago
If you code full time just force yourself to use it. Disable arrow keys in the .vimrc. Find the most common 5 procedures you use in your current editor and write out how to do those in vim on a post it note under your monitor. Also print out the vim cheat-sheet and have it visible. You'll pick it up in a few days. No one is going to care that your productivity dropped for a week.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoThe two reasons I still use arrow keys in vim: 1. I've been using the Colemak layout longer than vim, so hjkl is no longer the right-hand home row like it is under QWERTY. 2. My main keyboard at the moment is a Poker ][ and the arrow keys are fn+WASD (or WARS if you're being pedantic about the Colemak layout rather than the printed label on the caps)
- dokem 5y agoI now have arrow keys enabled because there is some menu where I need them sometimes. But disabling them helped me a lot initially. I think it will just take longer to pick it up if you can fall back to arrow keys when you get frustrated. I can only speak for standard QWERTY keyboards but some people default to using the arrow keys in vim and I see that as a huge fuckup that needs to be avoided from the get-go.