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2.1 For who? If the author is reading this, proper English would be "For whom?" The intro says he's not a native speaker, so it's a common mistake. Easily fixed.
In my experience, most native English speakers are easily confused about who vs whom, and avoid whom by rephrasing: Who is this book for?
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I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don't know if I'm stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn't make sense to me. I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).
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I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don't know if I'm stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn't make sense to me. I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).
There are a couple of tools which gamify Vim. I personally haven't used them. But some say they're pretty good.
For me, what worked was just jumping in and going whole hog. I tried disabling the arrow keys in Normal Mode, so I would have to use hjkl for navigation. But my keyboard puts the arrow keys in easy reach (Kinesis Advantage), so it turned out not to be much of a need.
What you may like is turning on relative line numbers. That way you can visually see what line you're at, and how many lines away your target is that want to jump to. Then you can practice going 5k to go up five lines, or d2j, to from where you are to two lines down.
This article was actually eye-opening for me: https://yanpritzker.com/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-m...
Maybe it'll help you too.
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I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don't know if I'm stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn't make sense to me. I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).
It's an extremely clumsy but totally workable way to get around if you only rarely need to edit a text file on a remote server. For example, if you highlight a section of text, you can `alt-x comment-region` and emacs will automatically insert comment markers at the beginning of each line (`uncomment-region` to undo the process). Or `alt-x save-buffer` to save.
The myriad keyboard shortcuts are just aliases for the named commands, so it's a straightforward transition from the clumsy tab-complete workflow to a more efficient one once you know your way around.
I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don't know if I'm stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn't make sense to me. I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).
2.1 For who? If the author is reading this, proper English would be "For whom?" The intro says he's not a native speaker, so it's a common mistake. Easily fixed.
In my experience, most native English speakers are easily confused about who vs whom, and avoid whom by rephrasing: Who is this book for?
Who/whom is indeed awkward at first to remember, but the phrase "for whom" tends to sound better on the tongue than some of the others due to its inclusion in the title "For Whom the Bell Tolls," a popular novel (or "popular Metallica song", depending on your age).