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Parent was saying they left emacs for pinky strain. How can you use regular letters in place of ESC in vim? How would you type "Dijkstra"?
by judk 12y ago
Parent was saying they left emacs for pinky strain.
How can you use regular letters in place of ESC in vim? How would you type "Dijkstra"?
- pmoriarty 12y agoJust type jk slowly. Also see [1]: :help timeoutlen and :help ttimeoutlen [1] - http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27timeoutlen%27 http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27timeou...
- isbadawi 12y agoAlternatively, you can type jjkak (insert a j, exit insert mode with cursor on the j, enter insert mode one character to the right, insert a k).
- Syssiphus 12y agohttp://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key See the 'jj' part in the 'Mappings' section.
- rbonvall 12y agoJust like in the shell, anything prepended with Control+V will be input literally, so you can type Dij<C-v>kstra.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoYeah, man. That shit freaked me out real bad. I also started eating salads and stopped hunching so much at the monitor.