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I'm a rather advanced Vim user (10 years, vimrc with custom vimscript, use many shortcuts for movement), but I find it unproductive to NOT use arrows in insert
by aartur 14y ago
I'm a rather advanced Vim user (10 years, vimrc with custom vimscript, use many shortcuts for movement),
but I find it unproductive to NOT use arrows in insert mode. Example: inserting 'x' two characters before current position.
With arrows:
<LEFT><LEFT>x<RIGHT>
Without arrows:
<ESC>hix<ESC>lli
It also much depends on a keyboard design, the laptop-like often have arrows under ENTER and using them doesn't require hand movement.
- qu4z-2 14y agoIn that situation I'd likely as not just backspace to the offending location and continue typing. Although I have been known to map caps+hjkl to the arrow keys. (I'm assuming your situation is a typo while you're inserting a short string, rather than just defaulting to insert mode)