On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 at 13:30 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:21 -0600, Carl Youngblood wrote: > > On 6/29/06, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dr. Scott Woodfield in the BYU CS dept is one person who will blow > > > anyone out of the water using vim. Watching what he can do with vim > > > amazes me. Honestly, eclipse would just slow him down (although he > > > might be using eclipse for nice build-tool integration these days; I > > > don't know). > > > > Would you be willing to do a screencast of Dr. Woodfield's vim magic > > sometime? That would be great. I bet a half-hour session with audio > > would easily be long enough to learn all sorts of awesome tricks. > > The problem is if you ask him how he does something, he has to think > about it for about 5 minutes as it's all in his muscle memory. I doubt > half the keystrokes even reach is brain; the spinal cord just knows what > to do! I have heard him say on occasion that part of the speed comes > from the dual-mode operation of vim, and due to simple, single-character > commands (that can be modified by numbers and other commands) that > combine to really make text editing fly.
The keypresses could be recorded and a transcript provided (or maybe even scrolling along the bottom of the screencast. The real trick would be giving an editing task sufficiently broad to excercise most of the useful commands. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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