I wonder if this would work better as a temporary mode (like how a real clutch works). For example, you stay in insert mode until you press the pedal, which escapes you to command mode, and then restoring insert mode after you depress the pedal?
Vim clutch
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Re: Vim clutch
#102I don't know how this would work out ergonomically. My dad is a cab driver and he often complains that pressing the clutch with his foot often giving him RSI kind of pain. But however I think this is purely subjective. From an experiment perspective, this is really cool! And this generally qualifies into what could one call a 'real hack'. This has a air of freshness to it. Now the real power of vim is in getting into…
You have to learn h,j,k,l are not just navigational keys but also can be combined with multipliers like 20h(Moves 20 positions to the left). You know, I've understood this for a while, but to this day I still don't use it. I can't count characters that fast! If you're going to lean forward and count out chars, you might as well count them out with presses of 'h'.
Yep, I'm the same. I do however jump 5 or perhaps 10 lines or words in the general direction I want to move in and correct from there. Other times it's less keystrokes to just hit / and search for the next location.
Re: Vim clutch
#103I don't know how this would work out ergonomically. My dad is a cab driver and he often complains that pressing the clutch with his foot often giving him RSI kind of pain. But however I think this is purely subjective. From an experiment perspective, this is really cool! And this generally qualifies into what could one call a 'real hack'. This has a air of freshness to it. Now the real power of vim is in getting into…
You can wear driver's shoes. They give stability with the flat heel.
Re: Vim clutch
#104I don't know how this would work out ergonomically. My dad is a cab driver and he often complains that pressing the clutch with his foot often giving him RSI kind of pain. But however I think this is purely subjective. From an experiment perspective, this is really cool! And this generally qualifies into what could one call a 'real hack'. This has a air of freshness to it. Now the real power of vim is in getting into…
Have you tried running vimtutor? It goes quite a way towards teaching the general philosophy (or 'zen' if you like) behind using vim.
Re: Vim clutch
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can start thinking in vim by reading this answer on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118 Moving word wise,(w,e) is used a lot. Next occurrence of word under cursor is useful. *,# Learning effective macros is extremely useful. di" is one of my favorite commands. Delete everything inside the quotes not including the quotes. Put inoremap jj into your .vimrc so that you can press jj quickly in insert mo…
di" is one of my favorite commands. Delete everything inside the quotes not including the quotes. You usually want to replace what's inside the quotes, so hence use ci" cit is pretty nice for replacing a tag's inner html. And of course this works with parentheses - ci( - and brackets - ci[ - and curly braces and single quotes and angle brackets.. I love vim :)
Yeah you are right; I use c more than d. The a command is also very useful.
Re: Vim clutch
#106I don't know how this would work out ergonomically. My dad is a cab driver and he often complains that pressing the clutch with his foot often giving him RSI kind of pain. But however I think this is purely subjective. From an experiment perspective, this is really cool! And this generally qualifies into what could one call a 'real hack'. This has a air of freshness to it. Now the real power of vim is in getting into…
Have you tried running vimtutor? It goes quite a way towards teaching the general philosophy (or 'zen' if you like) behind using vim.
http://www.openvim.com is also a good web-based tutorial that I used when learning vim.
Re: Vim clutch
#107A lot of people here complain of RSI and comment how the pedal helps solve that. I tried solving this by creating a keyboard layout especially for vim:
https://bitbucket.org/cheater/us_split.
It's just like us qwerty, just more ergonomic.
Re: Vim clutch
#108I don't know how this would work out ergonomically. My dad is a cab driver and he often complains that pressing the clutch with his foot often giving him RSI kind of pain. But however I think this is purely subjective. From an experiment perspective, this is really cool! And this generally qualifies into what could one call a 'real hack'. This has a air of freshness to it. Now the real power of vim is in getting into…
You have to learn h,j,k,l are not just navigational keys but also can be combined with multipliers like 20h(Moves 20 positions to the left). You know, I've understood this for a while, but to this day I still don't use it. I can't count characters that fast! If you're going to lean forward and count out chars, you might as well count them out with presses of 'h'.
Note: this post assumes Vim, not other implementations of VI
If you type fast, you don't want to have to spend time correcting for line estimations that are slightly off as a result of thinks like 20h. For navigation, just use forward slash to search and you'll land right where you want. It's also almost always faster to use f/F/t/T in conjunction with semicolon or comma for jumping to specific letters than using h or l. The # and * keys are also useful for jumping to words in a specific line. Failing all of /?fFtT#*, it's still going to be faster to use ^0$wWbBeE than hl unless you're one or two characters away from where you want to be. But you shouldn't even need to navigate much within lines, since text objects let you edit entire units of text, regardless of where the cursor is within those units. People who come from an emacs background (and use the default editing environment instead of evil) can't even imagine how powerful Vim is as a raw editor until they try it. I can only edit in emacs for long periods of time if I'm using evil to emulate vim's text objects.
See http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html if you're new to Vim
Re: Vim clutch
#109I'll be the one voicing a contrarian opinion here.
vi and vim are holdbacks from the days of 300 to 9600 BAUD modems. A time when more sophisticated interfaces were prohibitive. Back in those days it wasn't too uncommon for people to actually write their own text editors. I wrote a few, mainly in Forth, as I would bring-up self-designed systems.
While I use VIM today when I have to I continue to think that in today's context these things are, well, ridiculous. There is no reason that the terminal can't switch modes on you and allow text editing with the same (or very similar) UI that traditional simple GUI editors provide.
The damn text box I am using in this browser to enter this comment is far more user-friendly than VIM. There is no reason for a modern terminal to continue to support something like VIM.
Put another way, I had editors running on 6502-based 2MHz clock (yes, 2 MEGA Hertz, not Giga) Forth machines that were far more user friendly than VIM or VI. We ought to have better tools today. In my opinion, there is no compelling reason to continue to promote something like VIM. Put a bullet in it already.
As for the hack. Lots of fun. But, geez, how fucked-up is an text editor that you have to come-up with a foot-switch to make it more usable?
Re: Vim clutch
#110I'll be the one voicing a contrarian opinion here. vi and vim are holdbacks from the days of 300 to 9600 BAUD modems. A time when more sophisticated interfaces were prohibitive. Back in those days it wasn't too uncommon for people to actually write their own text editors. I wrote a few, mainly in Forth, as I would bring-up self-designed systems. While I use VIM today when I have to I continue to think that in today's…
The damn text box I am using in this browser to enter this comment is far more user-friendly than VIM.
To the average user, sure; the text box is more friendly.
But that's not the point with vim. At all. Vim's design goals are speed and efficiency. To date, non-modal editors haven't come anywhere near vim in that regard.