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Unconsciousness is not good at doing even simple math like counting, so habits like 4j or 3yy are hard to form. It may even be counterproductive as non-trivial
by _0w8t 4y ago
Unconsciousness is not good at doing even simple math like counting, so habits like 4j or 3yy are hard to form.
It may even be counterproductive as non-trivial efforts to establish such habits will have cost. Less efforts will be spent on forming habits of spotting bugs in the code.
- endorphine 4y agoAs in my other comment: what if you use relative line numbers though?
- _0w8t 4y agoI suspect just by making sure that the cursor never leaves the middle of the screen may help better with habit formation than relative line numbers. This way, when one looks few lines below or above the middle it is easier to associate the distance to the center of the screen with numbers on the keyboard compared with distance to an arbitrary line in the screen. Plus relative line numbers will be perceived by the side vision which is rather poor in humans so they mostly help when one consciously looks into them. But then the question should be what is the end goal here? Is it faster edits in Vim or is it to get job done?