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I recommend swapping your left CTRL and ALT keys when using vim, as well as CAPS and ESC to avoid RSI. Also, the dot operator is king.
I was using vim for years before discovering the dot operator. Truly a game changer.
Two things that helped me more than anything with "learning" vim and or ever wanting to use it: 1. Remap your "capslock" key to "escape." Vi was written using an ADM-3A terminal and its keyboard, which you can see here: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys has the escape-key in a sane place. On modern keyboards, if you can, remap "capslock" to "escape" when pressed alone, and "ctrl" when pressed with…
I just use ctrl-c instead of esc. Infinitely more accessible than esc or even ctrl bracket - it mystifies me why it’s not more commonly known. Only problem is that it quits you out of macros, so you need to use esc then, but that’s easy to remember and I use ctrl-c probably 4 orders of magnitude more than I use macros. (In fact, multi cursor mode in vscode vim obsoletes them for me entirely!)
Ctrl-c breaks all kinds of things including repeats, so ctrl-[ is usually a better choice.
Two things that helped me more than anything with "learning" vim and or ever wanting to use it: 1. Remap your "capslock" key to "escape." Vi was written using an ADM-3A terminal and its keyboard, which you can see here: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys has the escape-key in a sane place. On modern keyboards, if you can, remap "capslock" to "escape" when pressed alone, and "ctrl" when pressed with…
Remap esc to ‘kj‘ instead. It’s faster to type than ‘jj’ it’s on the home row and doesn’t require a custom binding. The sequence kj is rarely used in English or coding.
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When I was first learning Vim I remapped caps lock to escape, and it was a huge improvement. But as I became more comfortable in Vim I realized I was using the control key a lot. I've since remapped caps lock to control, and use ctrl-[ as escape (this is default behavior). I find having an easily accesible control key is very useful, even outside Vim. You can see in your link that it is actually the control key that…
I recently learned this trick since getting a new MacBook pro with the touch bar esc key. I couldn't stand the lack of travel and didn't want to remap keys, now I use the ctrl-[ combo on all keyboards out of habit
Learn Vim (the builtin way): :help
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Sure, I use VSCode and Intellij and all the beautiful modern IDEs. But I use them with Vim keybindings turned on. Because extremely common things that you do while programming are extremely quick for me to do with vim commands. ci" == delete everything within these quotes, and put me in insert mode. vi{:%s/old_var_name/new_var_name/g == rename a variable within a block qaI" A", jq == make a new macro to quote a line…
Just started doing this for RSI reasons. Not having to constantly reach down to those arrow keys is fabulous .
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I'm personally a fan of remapping jk or jj to esc, there barely any instances in the english language where you would use those two letters together, and it means you can leave insert mode whilst barely moving your hands :D
I use zz, it's similarly rare and compliments ZZ (save and quit) well.
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My issue with this is that it causes a delay with every single j that is entered. Only a visual delay that freezes the cursor and then lets it jump by two characters, but irritating for me regardless. Otherwise it's very practical though.
I don’t use it either but I think you can change the delay. Check out :h 'ttimeout' and :h 'ttimeoutlen' Haven’t touched that part of my vimrc in years
Two things that helped me more than anything with "learning" vim and or ever wanting to use it: 1. Remap your "capslock" key to "escape." Vi was written using an ADM-3A terminal and its keyboard, which you can see here: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys has the escape-key in a sane place. On modern keyboards, if you can, remap "capslock" to "escape" when pressed alone, and "ctrl" when pressed with…
I sort of got obsessed with the aforementioned ADM-3A keyboard layout, so I got myself a keyboard with unofficial QMK[1] support, and with that I remapped my keys as follows: - Tab functions as Escape, Caps Lock as Control. That makes both keys well in reach of my pinky, and I can still use ^I for Tab. - I remapped symbols according to an illustration[2] of the ADM-3A layout on Wikimedia (with some small adjustments)…
If I could humbly add, one of the hardest things about learning Vim isn't reading a list of commands, but rather _practicing_ them. So I wrote a list of Vim exercises (or études for the musicians), files requiring various edits, and a daily practice schedule that can be used to drill each distinct skill. Once you've mastered it, you can drop it from your schedule. I found it was really the only way to actually commit some of the more esoteric skills to muscle memory.
Here's a sample for how to practice muscle memory around named registers for yank and put, a skill almost no one I know regularly uses because it's hard to learn just by reading. After writing this and working through the ten minute exercise daily for a couple weeks, it became second nature, and now I can't live without it.
https://github.com/steveshogren/10-minute-vim-exercises/blob...