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When your cursor is in the center of the word, you can't use ctrl-shift arrow to select that word [it will only select part of the word]. Therefore first you ne
by z92 14y ago
When your cursor is in the center of the word, you can't use ctrl-shift arrow to select that word [it will only select part of the word]. Therefore first you need to move cursor to a side, then start your ctrl-shift work that you described.
GP highlighted this special thing. I guess you missed his main point.
- dllthomas 14y agoIn terms of finger travel, if I've already moved my right hand to the arrow keys, and my left hand to ctrl and shift, then it's simply hold-ctrl, left, start holding shift, right. While not quite as simple as ciw, my main complaint is moving my right hand all the way over to the arrows and back; complaining about the comparative complexity of the sequence seems ridiculous.
- lelele 14y agoWhat annoys me about the arrow keys is that I can't reach them without looking, and they also change position on different keyboards (standard keyboards vs laptop keyboards, for example). Having to look to the keyboard distracts me.
- dllthomas 14y agoAgreed - needing arrow keys in the middle of doing anything else is bad. My point was that, in this particular case, the fact that the arrow keys are needed is basically all of the bad, and that the parent's complaint of increased complexity/typing is certainly not strong and perhaps not valid.