Weekly Vim Focus
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Weekly Vim Focus
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#2Doesn't take a long time after you remap the arrow keys to be broken of that habit. I love not having to move my hands for the small navigation things now. Highly suggested.
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#3One thing that bothers me and I couldn't find an answer for vi/vim is how do you undo one character at a time? Command u always undo all the text typed since the last insert. Something like ctrl-Z would be great.
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#4Doesn't take a long time after you remap the arrow keys to be broken of that habit. I love not having to move my hands for the small navigation things now. Highly suggested.
noremap
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#5Upvote for teaching me about to paste in insert mode.
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#6For a long time user, usage of up/down/left/right should be punished!
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#7For a long time user, usage of up/down/left/right should be punished!
I bow my head in shame and promise to mend my ways.
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#8Learning how to use "t" was a game-changer for me. Before that, I used "f", which cost me a fair bit of time when deleting things since the extra character was deleted. (c/d)t is a great sequence that I use a lot.
I suggest VimGolf as a way to learn new commands, especially how to use them efficiently. It was how I learned to use "w" and "b", as well as macros.
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#9One thing that bothers me and I couldn't find an answer for vi/vim is how do you undo one character at a time? Command u always undo all the text typed since the last insert. Something like ctrl-Z would be great.
You can modify undo to chunk based on words with the following:
:inoremap u
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#10 to paste in insert mode?? That doesn't work for me.