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> Vim lets you jump through text. Try G for bottom, gg for top, $ for end of line How is this better than Ctrl+End for bottom, Ctrl+Home for the top, End for end of line? I believe these keys have actually been put on the keyboards right for this and that's why their names are self-descriptive. > 5j to jump 5 lines I can't imagine a case when this would be of serious value. > w to jump word, b backwards etc. Ctrl+arr…
The real advantages of Vim start to become clear once you know the basics and start to understand in how many ways you can combine them efficiently. You can press 'dw' to delete the word right of the cursor. 'd/]' to delete everything from the cursor to the next closing bracket("delete and search next ]"). 'dip' to delete the whole paragraph around the cursor("delete in paragraph"). 'di{' to delete everything between…
And I can press Ctrl+Del to achieve the same. Right here in this commend edit form.
> delete everything from the cursor to the next closing bracket
This seems slightly interesting but not really. Many good text editors would highlight the matching bracket and it usually is just a tiny bit more slow to delete everything to that point.
> 'dip' to delete the whole paragraph around the cursor("delete in paragraph")
Hardly ever needed this in my entire life.
> And of course you can tell it to repeat those operations by entering a number beforehand, or just repeat the last operation by pressing '.'.
I know but can't imagine a use case for this.
I actually want to master Vim, let me be sincere, just to look more cool and professional, impress the boss and feel more of a hacker but that's not enough of motivation for me and I'm desperate to find anything in it which would actually feel handy.