On 25/06/09 14:48, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>>> 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
As for many other tasks, Vim offers several solutions for this one
(moving the cursor about) and the solution to use is whichever one suits
you best _at this particular time_.
In addition to what Tim mentioned (and which I use when that's what I
need), I'd mention that:
- in Normal mode, I have remapped jk to move differently than <Down>
<Up> so I use the ones to move by "file line" and the others to move by
"screen line". I may use the arrow keys to move about but yl to yank a
single character (e.g. "+yl to yank it to the clipboard for pasting into
an email) even though l and <Right> do the same thing.
- to go to "that particular place", to which I can point, but which is
an indeterminate number of lines / columns / words away from the present
cursor position, I just click the mouse on it (provided, of course, that
I have a working mouse and a Vim version which knows about it --
recently my mouse stopped working so I had to resort to other ways of
moving in Vim & Mozilla, and to stop playing my favourite games because
_they_, the stupids, don't know about keyboard-only).
In agreement with the first paragraph quoted above, I'd say: remapping
hjkl to jkl; (or, on my keyboard, to jklm) is possible, but it's the
surest way to shoot yourself in the foot in the long run. For similar
reasons, if your vimrc invokes mswin.vim (a script of long and bad
reputation), I highly recommend that you remove that line or comment it
away -- in my years on the Vim lists, I've seen the mappings in that
script causing no end of trouble to the people using them.
Best regards,
Tony.
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it's too dark to read."
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