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What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
by jagger27 13y ago
What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
- ryanthejuggler 13y agoI think he means instead of using a colon to begin Vim commands, he begins by typing a space. I started using Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl a couple months ago. It's great, except now I can't use other people's computers because I end up in caps-lock shout mode. E.g. instead of "ctrl+l" in my browser to visit a site, it ends up: CTRL+SHOUT+L BROWSER TAKE ME TO FACEBOOK I COMMAND THEE
- normalocity 13y agolol - yeah, I have the same problem. I recently did some pairing on someone else's computer and it took me a good 20 minutes to start reaching for the intended key instead.
- publicfig 13y agoLeader is actually a different key than the colon in Vim. Here's a nice description of it: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.html http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.ht...
- ChronosKey 13y agocolon is used to enter Ex mode. Leader is a separate key (used as an extra modifier like the Meta key in Emacs) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1764263/what-is-the-leader-in-a-vimrc-file http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1764263/what-is-the-leade...
- toki5 13y agoIn vim, you can use the leader key to set up shortcuts, e.g.: :map <Leader>W :w [some things you want to tack onto w] The leader key is by default '\', so that's effectively mapping \W to :w [some things ...] He's replacing his leader key with space.
- normalocity 13y agoSorry, I guess I didn't describe that in the article. I've updated the article to include this link: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.html http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.ht... I also fixed the display of the .vimrc file so you can see the "<Leader>" entries.