On 01/28/2011 09:04 AM, Daryl Lee wrote:
I am fairly new in vim and also my touch typing is not that great.
Although I can deal very well with all the vim commands I found my self
always looking down when I need to write a number argument. I was
wondering wether there is a way in vim to input numbers without leaving
the home row. Or is it that with time I will be able to reach the numbers
row without looking?
Hang in there. When I started touch typing, it took me a while to train my
fingers to find the right numbers. It'll come.
While I agree with Daryl that, with time & practice, you'll
touch-type numbers well; I also recommend digging deeply into
vim's powerful operator+motion scheme. I rarely use numbers when
doing things, preferring to use motions that describe the intent
of the task. Things like
ci"
to change the contents of a string instead of "4hd5w" ("4
characters to the left, then delete 5 words") or
dip
to "delete the inner paragraph" or
>}
to indent one 'shiftwidth' from the current line until the next
blank line. Likewise, the f/F/t/T motions are great for jumping
horizontally in the line, so I almost never use h/l to move
left/right.
Some places to read up:
:help text-object
:h f
and in general, all of
:help motion.txt
will provide you with an abundance of motions that minimize the
need for counting things and typing numbers.
-tim
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