On Jun 25, 3:29 am, "John Beckett" <[email protected]> wrote: > gary_p wrote: > > So: the first thing I notice about vim is that my right hand > > is not in home position in control mode. I have to move my > > hand over one key to get to hjkl. So now when I try to hit > > "i", my middle finger instinctively shoots up, and I hit "u" > > instead. Wha... it seems like such a goof-ball thing to > > have to do: move your hand back and forth by *one key*. > > I have been touch typing for many years and it has always been > natural to me to NOT move my hand when using hjkl. Instead, I > use the "proper" fingers for each key, and just slightly move > my index finger when I need to press 'h'. BTW it's often best to > move the cursor with things like 5W (5 WORDS which is more than > 5w for 5 words), or fx (find 'x', i.e. jump to 'x') and more. > > > If I stick with vim, I'll swap esc and caps-lock. (Whoever > > put caps- lock in prime real estate should be imprisoned.) > > While pressing Esc is a nuisance, I find it's not too bad; I > shift my left hand to the left, and a couple of fingers feel the > edge of the keyboard, while another hits the key. > > However, I recently cleaned up the following tip and much to my > amazement I find that the "Using the Enter key" section is very
Of course, that's "Using the Escape key" > easy to love (after a couple of hours of getting used to it). > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Escape *Very* good. Thanks. > > John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
