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Re: Learn Vim (2021)

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vim equivalents: 20g line number / find what you are looking for same for pgup and pgdown i think what you're describing sounds a bit like visual mode which is just v d and p for cut and paste if moving stuff around needs to be done (dd for whole line, 5dd for 5 lines, v and then j a few times in visual mode before d or y for yank (copy), etc...) Note how you don't have to strain your pinky to hit ctrl for any of the…

> Note how you don't have to strain your pinky to hit ctrl for any of these? Note how insanely context-dependent all these are? How it's completely different commands for what is essentially the same operation? Keys can be remapped (I have CapsLock mapped to Ctrl).

Yeah I got mine remapped to esc

It's just a different modality mine just exists a little closer to where my fingertips chill on the home row

Re: Learn Vim (2021)

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I learned vim when I picked up linux, now I work at a company with a customized emacs tool we have to use. Doh it never ends...

What does the customized emacs tool do? It sounds interesting.

We have our own software SDLC with custom tools. Its kinda nice coordinating across a large organization, sucks to be using these custom tools.
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