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For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Modes#Ex-mode https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learnin

• octo_t 12y ago
  aka "Oh, that's the key I have been hitting by accident"
  • untothebreach 12y ago
    Yea, I finally got fed up one day and put nnoremap Q <nop> in my .vimrc. No more "how did I get HERE?"
    • adolfoabegg 12y ago
      oh man, thank you very much!
      • untothebreach 12y ago
        No problem :)
    • Expez 12y ago
      I usually record my throwaway macros to q (because hitting qq is so easy), so I've bound Q to 'call the most recently defined macro'. I would post something to put in your .vimrc, but I use the vim emulator evil-mode in Emacs. This way, I can skip the awkward @q step, and keep hitting Q instead of @@ to re-run the macro.
      • untothebreach 12y ago
        that is a great idea!
      • burke 12y ago
        I use <space> for this. It's very gratifying, mashing the spacebar to repeat a macro.
        • weaksauce 12y ago
          using space for the leader is one thing that I absolutely love... I was using , for it but space is so much easier and nicer to use. you are not limited to one finger to start the leader command so it makes both sides of the keyboard nice to use for leader chords. it only took about a week to retrain myself for it. here's the command... put it at the top of your vimrc before anything else so it works with your plugins. let mapleader=" "
          • burke 12y ago
            Hm, this is actually a really neat idea. I'm going to try this!
            • weaksauce 12y ago
              It was painful for a few days but after that I can't imagine going back to , especially since that is actually a useful default binding.
          • sstanfie 12y ago
            I have mapleader set to ",", which has served me well. I just realized I only use my left thumb with the spacebar, so the ambidextrous argument doesn't fly for me. But I did realize space currently does nothing for me in normal mode. So I made it work like less/more, i.e., it pages the screen down: nnoremap <space> <C-d> nnoremap <S-space> <C-u>
            • sstanfie 12y ago
              Should just be: nnoremap <space> <C-d> The shift-space doesn't work.
            • weaksauce 12y ago
      • forwardslash 12y ago
        How do you call the most recently defined macro? I just have Q bound to @q, but if I could make it more general that would be awesome.
        • davis 12y ago
          @@ re-runs the last macro.
    • BruceIV 12y ago
      This is wonderful, I must do this, I keep hitting `q` instead of `:q` when I want to quit Vim, and it's a pain to get out of...
  • return0 12y ago
    And for those who are still stuck in it ... :vi to end the madness
    • unclebunkers 12y ago
      exit also works.
      • icambron 12y ago
        The instructions tell me to type "visual" and that seems to work.
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• k__ 12y ago
  "... similar to the command line mode ... Unlike the command-line mode you won't return to normal mode automatically ... enter ... by typing a Q in normal mode" So they have a mode you enter when pressing q (which quits many other programs) that you can't leave if you don't know the leave command? This is comedy gold. :D
  • icebraining 12y ago
    It was in fact the original mode. vi was the visual mode for ex.
  • seszett 12y ago
    Not "q", but "Q". Actually, when entering Ex mode you get a little helpful message that says Type "visual" to go to Normal mode. If you do press "q" though, you're in macro mode, and you don't get any helpful message that tells you that you have to press "q" another time to exit it.
    • k__ 12y ago
      I see, thanks for the clarification :) Vim always seems like magic to me. I always use nano/pico when I need to edit something in the command line.
      • cwyers 12y ago
        Yeah, I remember when I was first learning Linux, I was pretty much thrown into the deep end with nobody to help me much. I got into vim to edit a text file, and was... completely lost at sea. I figured out how to install nano and have never touched another Linux text editor since.
      • sejje 12y ago
        Vim is a programmer's dream. If my only use were editing files in CLI, though, I'd have always used nano and not learned vim, as well.
        • 12y ago