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On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Anders Tidbeck wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Anders Tidbeck wrote:
A question came up on superuser.com about backwards motions in Vim:
"To move a word forward in Vim, you press w or e. How can I move a
word backwards?"
I recommended the vimtutor to get started, but as the one asking the
question pointed out this is not in there.
I think that at least 'b' should be added under the motion shortlist
in Lesson 2.3.
The "motion shortlist" you mention only talks about 'hjkl', so it's
not really a "motion shortlist", more like "the simplest motion
commands".
'b' is mentioned alongside 'w', when you get to section 03.1: 'Word
movement'.
[...]
The "motion shortlist" I was talking of is:
A short list of motions:
w - until the start of the next word, EXCLUDING its first character.
e - to the end of the current word, INCLUDING the last character.
$ - to the end of the line, INCLUDING the last character.
This is Version 1.7 (Lesson 2.3) of the tutor, that comes with Vim 7.3
(on Windows anyway). I know the help have great/complete information
that is easy to find, but it wasn't for me and others in the
beginning.
My apologies. I only vaguely recalled that `vimtutor` was a separate
command (your response jogged my memory). In my previous response, I'd
issued:
:help vimtutor
At that point I didn't really pay attention to the text at *vimtutor*, I
just assumed I had gone to the tutor.
Then I navigated to the next chapter of the user manual, where "section"
(not "Lesson") 2.3 also happens to discuss basic motions.
I think it would be great adding one line about 'b' so beginners
understand there is backwards commands in this short list.
Looking at the actual `vimtutor` this time, I agree that it seems like
'b' and 'ge' (and probably '^') should be added to that list.
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Best,
Ben
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