No true vim user types so slowly that this is a problem.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:03:39 PM UTC-4, Miguel Bazdresch wrote: >> >> In vim, you can do something like >> >> imap \alpha<TAB> <C-V>u03b1 >> >> to reproduce this behavior. >> > > This works, sort of, but I find it a bit annoying. If you are too slow > in typing "\alpha" then it doesn't perform the substitution. If you type > it quickly, it works, but you have to type it blindly because vim doesn't > move the cursor (the characters "\alpha" fall on top of one another as you > type). Worse, it makes it harder t > > I find it much nicer to be able to type \alpha, see what I'm doing, and > then type <TAB> at any later point in time, only when I'm ready to make the > substitution. Presumably you can program vim to do this, but it may not > be as simple as "imap"? > > On the other hand, I'm not a vi user. Maybe an editing mode that requires > rapid, blind typing would fit right in with that editor. ;-) >
