On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 2:26:18 AM UTC-5, Boyko Bantchev wrote: > > I find it still difficult to go to next lines or browsing up or down > > through the text. > > Can any one please help me with efficient use of working with text without > > a usual j,k,h,l use? > > You may want to move the cursor within the text, or scroll the text > itself, or both. There are means for doing each of these. > > To move the cursor fast within the window in vertical direction > (without scrolling), there is e.g. L/H/M. And for smooth scrolling > there is Ctrl-E/Ctrl-Y. By means of mapping, one may combine > Ctrl-E with j, as well as Ctrl-Y with k, so that smooth scrolling > would not affect the relative position of the cursor within the > window, where possible. > > I see no reason to disable hjkl. If you want to learn and use new > means of navigating, then do so -- how does hjkl interfere? Besides, > as others have pointed out, hjkl can be prefixed by counts, which is > very useful. If you disable or ignore hjkl, how would you move the > cursor ten lines up or down fast? Or how would you yank fast e.g. > five characters to the right of where the cursor is (i.e., do y5l)?
I think my comment about disabling hljk is not . I know, it is not recommended to disable an obvious capability. But In my case, I am just getting used to many other motion keys. As I pointed out, I am beginner/intermediate level vim user. Still learning to get around things. I have already learned a lot from this forum. Thank you all for it. Here are some of takeaways so far (for me). - Use <number>jkhl,w,e,b,ge etc. - Use relative numbers. - Use easymotion plugin. (which is pretty awesome!) - Use / for search. Start using marks for quick yanking/delete. (for example, to copy a block, mark at the start (ma). Go to end of the block, type y'a to copy, or d'a to delete. - Use control+o in insert mode. (e.g. control+o+3j) etc Please share any other tips/suggestions you may have. Thanks. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
