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I wonder if this actually teaches you the right kind of muscle memory. I have no difficulty with hjkl for navigating in Vim, but I had trouble associating thos
by jlebar 14y ago
I wonder if this actually teaches you the right kind of muscle memory.
I have no difficulty with hjkl for navigating in Vim, but I had trouble associating those keys with the string "move <up/down/left/right> one character".
Mapping from the description of the command to the key is not the kind of muscle memory I use all day.
- czzarr 14y agoeven though the project looks good, this is spot on.
- jlongster 14y agoAgreed, this is the strangest way to learn an editor. The whole point of pressing a command is to see what it actually does. Connecting that action to your muscle movements is what you want.
- zethraeus 14y agoAgreed. Perhaps a block of text/code with lines highlighted along with instructions on how/what to change them? That would give the right visual feedback and should be totally doable.
- JakeSc 14y agoYeah, it would be awesome to see prompts like: > Duplicate this line or > Move the cursor to the beginning of this line|
- humanfromearth 14y agoAgreed. Same problem here. Perhaps a visual display of what needs to be done would be a lot more useful. I have no clue of how this could be done though. At the same time if you want to build muscle memory, just use the damn editor and you get it eventually :)
- the_moon 14y agoOne thing I learned from this is that I don't know my directions. I was consistently hitting h for right and l for left.