There's only so much can fit under my skull.. and I prefer to stick with
a limited subset of keyboard actions that may not be the quickest and
most efficient for all occasions.. but that I can use without hesitation
or incurring any overhead rememberiing. Namely that if the cursor is at
the beginning of the line above and I want to get to the ‘..ii..’ typo
in ‘rememberiing.’, I find it considerably more effective when all is
told to just hit ‘w’ till I get to the beginning of the word
‘rememberiing’.. and either hit llll.. or hit ‘e’ to get to the end of
the word and then ‘hh‘ followed by ‘x’ to delete the last of the two
‘i’'s.. What would I really gain by counting 1, 2, 3.. it's the 3rd ‘i’
I want to remove.. or wait a minute.. is it the second..? Huh..
Now I'm aware that I could also jump to the next sentence and work
backward.. and there are probably other ways to get to that extra ’i’ in
fewer keystrokes than my clumsy approach, but all in all, I much prefer
sticking to wwww.. or eeee.. and occasionally bbb.. etc. because it
would take me longer to produce the ‘find the third i’ or ’jump to next
sentence’ key sequence than typing three or four (five or six..) ‘w’'s
in succession.
Hehe. Since we're sharing...If I were fixing 'rememberiing', I probably
would have done:
/ii<Enter>x
No need to count, and no need to watch what I'm doing to know when to
stop repeatedly pushing something either. I do this a lot. If I see an
error on the screen, I just use / to quickly jump to it, or at least to
something 'unique' in its near vicinity, and then fix it. Sometimes I
don't type enough to get me straight there, and need an n or two, but
that still tends to be quicker for me than moving around by repeating
other movement keys. YMMV.
Ben.
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