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SpaceVim – A community-driven Vim distribution

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Re: SpaceVim – A community-driven Vim distribution

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Somewhat tangential, but I have been pushed, due to certain laptop problems, into 'living on the terminal'. However I couldn't bring myself to become fluent in Vim or Emacs as I felt my time to return to Sublime or Atom would come again. I in fact ended up configuring Vim to behave exactly like a 'conventional' editor - therefore no Normal Mode, unless for panes that require it like NERDTree. From this experience the…

I think you can have a try with i3-wm

Re: SpaceVim – A community-driven Vim distribution

#13
post #6

Somewhat tangential, but I have been pushed, due to certain laptop problems, into 'living on the terminal'. However I couldn't bring myself to become fluent in Vim or Emacs as I felt my time to return to Sublime or Atom would come again. I in fact ended up configuring Vim to behave exactly like a 'conventional' editor - therefore no Normal Mode, unless for panes that require it like NERDTree. From this experience the…

> case sensitive combinations involving CTRL

Historically, pressing the CTRL key would set the 6th and 7th bits of the pressed key to 0.

So CTRL+J would turn both J (1001010) and j (1101010) into Line Feed (0001010).

I suppose some modern systems may have a way to distinguish between these signals, but some systems would not be able to easily generate a different signal for ^j and ^J.

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