On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:20:00PM +0100, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote: > I'm getting a tad fed up with having to press <shift> for colon > commands.
you don't need to > I have seen this suggested: > map ; : they should have also told you why they were saying that > But someone commented: "Don't map ":" to anything, it's a bad idea! " > Not sure why? one of the wonderful things about vim is, it's entirely up to you the semi colon is useful if you to a lot of searches restricted to the current line -- you'd want an alternative if you are among these (:help ; will take you to the section in motion.txt where the semi-colon's default mapping is described -- it repeats the single line search commands like f) i personally have mapped ; to : for years now, and love it -- i never do single line searches, and have never needed the semi-colon command my recommendation is to map it and save dozens of shift presses throughout the course of any given day it is up to you sc -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
