Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
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Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
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Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#2What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#3What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
I think he means instead of using a colon to begin Vim commands, he begins by typing a space.
I started using Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl a couple months ago. It's great, except now I can't use other people's computers because I end up in caps-lock shout mode.
E.g. instead of "ctrl+l" in my browser to visit a site, it ends up:
CTRL+SHOUT+L BROWSER TAKE ME TO FACEBOOK I COMMAND THEERe: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#4What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
In vim, you can use the leader key to set up shortcuts, e.g.:
:map W :w [some things you want to tack onto w]
The leader key is by default '\', so that's effectively mapping \W to :w [some things ...]
He's replacing his leader key with space.
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#5What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
Sorry, I guess I didn't describe that in the article. I've updated the article to include this link:
http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/06.ht...
I also fixed the display of the .vimrc file so you can see the "" entries.
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#6I use as my Easymotion leader..
https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion
it's well worth a look, gives you super quick fine grained movement
similarly
inoremap jj
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#7I've been using this since [~2010](https://github.com/sethwoodworth/dotfiles/commit/801f4a7163d...). I highly recommend leader as space.
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#8What is a leader key? How much typing class did I miss?!
I think he means instead of using a colon to begin Vim commands, he begins by typing a space. I started using Caps Lock as an extra Ctrl a couple months ago. It's great, except now I can't use other people's computers because I end up in caps-lock shout mode. E.g. instead of "ctrl+l" in my browser to visit a site, it ends up: CTRL+SHOUT+L BROWSER TAKE ME TO FACEBOOK I COMMAND THEE
lol - yeah, I have the same problem. I recently did some pairing on someone else's computer and it took me a good 20 minutes to start reaching for the intended key instead.
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#9i use my caps as control key.
Re: Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
#10If I am going to have to relearn where some of the keys are in vim then I might as well go the whole hog and get a Dvorak keyboard whilst I am at it!