>> I would highly recommend not remapping. Get used to not >> moving your right hand, but just poking h with you index >> finger without moving the other fingers from kl;. In a >> short while, you'll even forget which key moves where >> because you will be so conditioned to the strokes without >> even thinking. Remapping will set you up for other issues >> that will be annoying forever IMO. > > Good idea. Why didn't I think of that?
I've been vimming for about 10 years now (my, I feel old), and hardly ever use the h/l keys for moving left/right. I tend to use more gross/precise movements like t/T/f/F/w/b/e Very rarely do I want to go back/forward by a single letter, but rather I want to go "back to the letter 'x' in this line" or "3 words back". So I use Fx or 3b Additionally, if I'm moving around in the line, it's often to change something, so text-objects become valuable cis # change the "inner sentence" ci" # change the stuff inside double-quotes daw # delete the word the cursor is on etc. With mastery of these more surgical motions, gumming at the line with h/l feels a bit like back-street surgery with rusty saw-blades. It's a bit like watching my coworkers hold down the arrow-keys to get to the beginning/end of a line and wanting to scream "just press the button labeled Home/End!!!" :) Hope this opens up new doors to editing efficiencies for you... -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
