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Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#91
post #47

Wow. This is absolutely genius. You want to be more productive with vim, but this is generally due to the fact that you have little time as it is. Learning vim hasn't always been in the best interests of my current task. Then there is this game. Brilliant.

Thanks! I'm at a loss for words. It's very kind of you.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#92
post #22

Nice! I got bored before I finished the first level, but not before I was trying to use stuff like ^,$ and ctrl+f, ctrl+b, 5l to get to the end of the tunnels faster and those didn't work. Is more advanced editing unlocked in later levels? or is this just for getting off the arrow keys? I can imagine some cool things in a more advanced vim game like * for teleporting between words, mm to drop a bookmark, :badd to get…

The target of the first level was to cover hjkl. I know it's a pain and when you're proficient enough you usually don't use them but use tf*#/ and such, but it's the basics... The motions are working only on text areas (There are some on the 2nd level). Bookmarks are indeed planned for teleporting back to places, and I have plans for /Hello if you look at the first screen ;)

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#93

I really like this, and if the price isn't too bad I'll pay to keep going as I've learn't more from this than when I've sat down to try to 'learn to do VIM'. I guess there's only so much you can cover in this sort of game format (I'm doubting there will be a .vimrc level), but if it goes far enough to teach me to take all the lag out of navigating and editing, I'll be a happy bunny.

Thanks. I agree that a .vimrc level will be a stretch. I had some ideas on how to incorporate that to, but I think I'll leave it out. Once you get modal editing and know all necessary commands, motions, and operators to use, tweaking your .vimrc is a walk in the park (with a left turn on google street :) )

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#94
post #51

Chrome 19.0.1084.30 beta on OS X Lion is seeing nothing past the first screen for me. I hear sounds, but its a black box otherwise.

The only reason I can think of is that the browser didn't download the images from the server due to extream load on the server. I'm experiencing some server problems and opened a support ticket with my hosting company. If the problem persists, please contact me at doron ( at ) vim - adventures. com and I'd try to get to the bottom of it. Thanks.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#95
post #61
post #52

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How close are the controls? I never noticed they were similar... maybe I should try to ascend again, as I'm terrible in VI

Movement in a lot of roguelikes is HJKL. Also it's very common for YUBN to make your character move diagonally.

You could almost make (d)ropping items into a similarity, too.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#96

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The last word of your comment made me respond.. That'd be considered 'wrong' or missing out. Which the game tries to correct. Supposedly later levels will teach you about vim 'words' and you'll combine hjkl with lots of other commands. You cannot do that the way you use the software. How's that 'lame'? And what kind of an attitude is this if you click on a game that is supposed to teach you about vim and complain tha…

"Cursor keys are not the way to move around in VIM" That's why it's lame. You most certainly CAN. I don't care that other functions combine with hjkl in vim. They're useful but using hjkl for left/right/up/down is annoying and the restriction in this "tutorial" makes it that much worse.

You're better off going through the pain of learning the hard way.

It's like cheating and looking at your hands when learning to type. You'll never really learn to type properly and it slows you down a lot. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do it right. I wouldn't be able to hit 80 WPM if I had to stare at my hands.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#97
post #9

After finishing the maze there is a roadblock at the bottom of the screen after talking to the girl who tells me about what happens if I step into water and there is no column above me... Is there a game beyond there?

I already know vim keybindings and this part stumped me for a little bit. I think that, while the rest of the tutorial makes sense without listening to the people, this is the only part where it isn't obvious from the environment what you're supposed to do. Just a thought.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last word of your comment made me respond.. That'd be considered 'wrong' or missing out. Which the game tries to correct. Supposedly later levels will teach you about vim 'words' and you'll combine hjkl with lots of other commands. You cannot do that the way you use the software. How's that 'lame'? And what kind of an attitude is this if you click on a game that is supposed to teach you about vim and complain tha…

"Cursor keys are not the way to move around in VIM" That's why it's lame. You most certainly CAN. I don't care that other functions combine with hjkl in vim. They're useful but using hjkl for left/right/up/down is annoying and the restriction in this "tutorial" makes it that much worse.

Just use textmate. Lots of us love vim.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

#100
post #84

It keeps crashing Firefox. I am sort of wondering what in the world it is doing to manage to kill both Firefox and Chrome! Aside from that, it was not immediately obvious what W and B did, though a few seconds of playing around and it made sense. (That is about how far I got before it died the second time)

I managed to crash chrome once, but couldn't reproduce it. I'm an indie developer so I don't have enough people QAing the product yet :/ My first gut feeling is the audio, but didn't have a chance to prove it yet. It would be great if you'll be able to send me more info on when exactly it crashed to my mail doron ( at ) vim - adventures . com . Other than audio, I really don't do anything out of the ordinary - all ja…

It consistently kills chrome for me.
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