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Vim already has the capability to allow pressing a key chord to perform a custom function. Just use the plugin vim-arpeggio at https://github.com/kana/vim-arpeg

Vim already has the capability to allow pressing a key chord to perform a custom function. Just use the plugin vim-arpeggio at https://github.com/kana/vim-arpeggio https://github.com/kana/vim-arpeggio. And you can already do something like “DFD” expanding to “def someFunction(arg): stuff” by using the vim-snipmate plugin at https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate. That “snippets” functionality is based on TextMate’s snippets feature, and I know Eclipse supports snippets too. Thus, steno is not necessary for either of the advantages mentioned. However, it still might be good to have the mindset of using tools like vim-arpeggio more, and steno still might make typing variable names slightly faster.

DennisP 15y ago
Hmm...seems like it might be possible to use vim-arpeggio to implement steno on vim. Then whenever you're writing prose, turn steno on and type 200wpm in insert mode, while still having all the vim editing features available. Edit: "Part of the frustration was that, try as I might, I was never able to make my steno software work effectively with Vim, my favorite text editor." http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-with-steno.html http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-wit... I wonder why.
- ploversteno 15y ago
  Because all proprietary steno software builds in a 1.5-second buffer between when the stenographer enters the stroke and when the stroke is transmitted to an external program. Imagine having to wait 1.5 seconds for each command to execute. It's infuriating. Plover is the only steno software that uses a length-based stroke buffer rather than a timing-based one, so it sends commands immediately, making it work beautifully with Vim and every other external program I've tried it with. The difference in usability is startling.
  - DennisP 15y ago
    Ah, ok. I was actually thinking of something different: implementing steno chords in vim itself, instead of hooking it to an external program like plover. Since vim-arpeggio already handles simultaneous keystrokes, it seems it'd mainly be a matter of importing all the chords into vim-arpeggio. But I didn't know anything about steno before today so I'm probably over-simplifying. And it's pretty interesting that plover can work with vim...I'd love to see a blog post or screencast showing how that works.
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DennisP 15y ago

Hmm...seems like it might be possible to use vim-arpeggio to implement steno on vim. Then whenever you're writing prose, turn steno on and type 200wpm in insert mode, while still having all the vim editing features available. Edit: "Part of the frustration was that, try as I might, I was never able to make my steno software work effectively with Vim, my favorite text editor." http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-with-steno.html http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-wit... I wonder why.

ploversteno 15y ago
Because all proprietary steno software builds in a 1.5-second buffer between when the stenographer enters the stroke and when the stroke is transmitted to an external program. Imagine having to wait 1.5 seconds for each command to execute. It's infuriating. Plover is the only steno software that uses a length-based stroke buffer rather than a timing-based one, so it sends commands immediately, making it work beautifully with Vim and every other external program I've tried it with. The difference in usability is startling.
- DennisP 15y ago
  Ah, ok. I was actually thinking of something different: implementing steno chords in vim itself, instead of hooking it to an external program like plover. Since vim-arpeggio already handles simultaneous keystrokes, it seems it'd mainly be a matter of importing all the chords into vim-arpeggio. But I didn't know anything about steno before today so I'm probably over-simplifying. And it's pretty interesting that plover can work with vim...I'd love to see a blog post or screencast showing how that works.
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