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Home row is jkl;
As a reminder, that's why most keyboards have physical indentations in f and j. They're meant to be felt by index fingers.
Vim has soul. It is that chisel you inherited from your grandpa that you keep using. It fits well in your grip and is comfortable, even though it lacks the soft rubber that the new ones in the store have. It's a tool with its own history. Reading the comments here, it seems that the hacker's mentality still lives on. The new young billion-dollar company will be replaced in another 10-20 years. Vim lives on. I wish to…
A slight difference though. If a newbie picks up grandpa's chisel, it doesn't get glued onto their hand until they google the three magic words they must shout to make the chisel come off.
Maybe it's better to say the tool has sharp edges that if you aren't familiar with it, can bite you. But with a bit of practise and some knowledge you can master it.
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Off topic but your comment makes me think of Nick Drake. He died at 26, before even knowing he'd achieved anything, his music barely listened to, probably feeling a failure. Posthumously he's one of the world's most acclaimed recording artists. RIP Bram.
Good example, although Van Gogh is probably the more cited.
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My .vimrc: set nocompatible set backspace=2 set noexpandtab copyindent preserveindent softtabstop=0 tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 set ruler colorscheme torte Vim is what I mainly use out of habbit. It only requires typing vim as opposed to nvim . Neovim's init file has this plus more stuff to turn off features like showmode, keybinding for nohlsearch, SQL autocomplete and space indentation for python. Maybe some of those an…
>Vim is what I mainly use out of habbit. It only requires typing vim as opposed to nvim. I got used to typing vi instead. It's shorter alias vi=vim becomes alias vi=nvim
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/dpkg/update-alternative...
I just want vim to be aliased to it though, since if I type vi I want something very light and quick (my nvim is bloated ;)
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at least they cared enough to stick to their guns i guess
The article talks about modesty and meeting in the middle, but I get the impression that the younger dev didn’t want to budge or understand the other point being made by Bram.
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A slight difference though. If a newbie picks up grandpa's chisel, it doesn't get glued onto their hand until they google the three magic words they must shout to make the chisel come off.
I understand your metaphor but I think it's probably a stretch. Maybe it's better to say the tool has sharp edges that if you aren't familiar with it, can bite you. But with a bit of practise and some knowledge you can master it.
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I understand your metaphor but I think it's probably a stretch. Maybe it's better to say the tool has sharp edges that if you aren't familiar with it, can bite you. But with a bit of practise and some knowledge you can master it.
It's not a stretch that practically everybody who accidentally ends up in vim (often because it's git's default editor) ends up googling how to exit the program. It's the tool that you can't even drop by any intuitive action.
Restart your computer if all else fails
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It's not a stretch that practically everybody who accidentally ends up in vim (often because it's git's default editor) ends up googling how to exit the program. It's the tool that you can't even drop by any intuitive action.
Closing the terminal app is pretty intuitive to me. Restart your computer if all else fails
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not a coincedence or tribute - same has been the same in the uk for many years. the letter "i" is typically not used for such purposes because it can so easily be confused with numeric "1" or alpha "l".
Pretty sure it's a tribute -- local trains in NL do not have named carriages FAFAIK, because there's no reserved seating. Only international trains have those indicators, and they do not go to Den Helder.
Video in Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvh9SaQbUY
Today at a train station in the Netherlands (Utrecht) I noticed something special. I saw the letters hjkl on the sign in reverse order. These letters indentify the platform areas where you can enter the train. Depending on the length of the platform and the area where the train has entrances, it shows the letters. https://postimg.cc/mcCWhMXw Either this was super coincidence, or someone at the NS (the Dutch train com…
Video in Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvh9SaQbUY