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Weekly Vim Focus

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Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#12
For those wishing to ingrain Vim keys into their muscle memory, and improve their browsing experience, I recommend the Vimium[1] extension to Chrome. Additionally, Firefox has Vimperator[2] and Opera has VimOperate[3] (not as many features on the latter unfortunately).

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh... [2]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/?s... [3]https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/vimope...

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#13

Doesn'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.

Isn't that annoying in insert mode?

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#14
post #12

For those wishing to ingrain Vim keys into their muscle memory, and improve their browsing experience, I recommend the Vimium[1] extension to Chrome. Additionally, Firefox has Vimperator[2] and Opera has VimOperate[3] (not as many features on the latter unfortunately). [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/?s... [3] https://ad…

pentadactyl is the best vim keybinding plugin for firefox now. It used to be vimperator though. Check it out http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#15
post #13

Doesn'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.

Isn't that annoying in insert mode?

I'd recommend against navigating while in insert mode.

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#16
post #13

Doesn'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.

Isn't that annoying in insert mode?

'noremap' has no effect on insert mode.

  :help noremap

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#17
post #12

For those wishing to ingrain Vim keys into their muscle memory, and improve their browsing experience, I recommend the Vimium[1] extension to Chrome. Additionally, Firefox has Vimperator[2] and Opera has VimOperate[3] (not as many features on the latter unfortunately). [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgnhh... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/?s... [3] https://ad…

pentadactyl is the best vim keybinding plugin for firefox now. It used to be vimperator though. Check it out http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

whats better about pentadactyl

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#18
When starting with Vim I completely changed all of the software that I interact with. That means: mutt for email, vimperator, vimprobable or vim plugin for chrome, mocp with vim keybindings, newsbeuter and dwm with simple keybindings.

After getting comfortable with this setup, I find it is now a pain to drop down to use the arrow keys. This type of setup really helped me 'convert' to a vi way of thinking. I am still learning, but am liking the minimal setup.

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#19
I didn't use the hjkl keys until two things happened, about the same time. The first was getting a job as an SA, where on older (and less GNU) operating systems would NOT support the key mappings.

The second was once my job was automated, I got to play a bit of nethack. A text based game that uses that style of navigation did help a bit.

Re: Weekly Vim Focus

#20
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pentadactyl is the best vim keybinding plugin for firefox now. It used to be vimperator though. Check it out http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

whats better about pentadactyl

From the Pentadactyl home page:

"Pentadactyl was once called Vimperator, initially written by Martin Stubenschrott, then developed and maintained by Doug Kearns, Kris Maglione, and several other invaluable contributors. Doug and Kris, the primary Vimperator developers for several years, have left the Vimperator project and now develop and maintain Pentadactyl in its stead."

So it's essentially the successor to Vimperator, or at least a well-maintained fork by the original authors.

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