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Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets. Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentall
by wonger_ 9mo ago
Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.
Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
- qbrass 9mo agoIf you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing. So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.
- psyclobe 9mo agoUh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it. > lowercase a whole buffer, Happens a lot to me actually! That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
- rcbdev 9mo agoMind sharing your .vimrc file with the world? Would love to try it.
- psyclobe 9mo agohttps://pastebin.com/YCQmKJRJ https://pastebin.com/YCQmKJRJ
- iguessthislldo 9mo agoMost of it is commented very well. Also I like it because it has a little bit of personal character. > " Incrementally match the search. I orignally hated this > " but someone forced me to live with it for a while and told > " me that I would grow to love it after getting used to it... > " turns out he was right :) > set incsearch
- swyx 9mo agomaybe throw it in your friendly neighborhood LLM
- riedel 9mo agoWhile I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vim key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY
- dbalatero 9mo agoI miss keys sometimes, but if it makes bad edits (it doesn't always!), I just hit `u` to undo.
- otikik 9mo agoI have been using it for 15+ years as my main editor and I still feel clumsy. I move doing jjjjjjjjjjj very often. I guess I have reached a local maxima and I don't want to invest the extra time on improving