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> Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 My fingers just broke reading that. Having said that I don't have a right alt key, as it's altgr . I suppose it's advisable to have two alt keys to use emacs.
I think people mash all 3 control keys with the left hand and reach across for the 5, or stretch their fingers very awkwardly and do all four. We’re into Rachmaninov territory at that point.
A full gearbox would be nice: * reverse --> undo * first gear --> replace mode * second gear --> visual mode * third gear --> command mode * fourth gear --> insert mode * fifth gear --> customizable mode
Is there a Vim speed editing contests? I'd love to watch one. And Vim vs Sublime Text too :)
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> if you are having trouble with getting into and out of insert mode, maybe Vim isn't for you. I've got a question there actually. The only thing that throws off my flow while using Vim is exiting insert mode, as my keyboard has an inconvenient esc key. Is there a better way to exit? I've done some cursory looking but haven't found anything that looks useful. (Remapping my keyboard isn't a viable option, as I game on…
The best remap in my vimrc: " Map jk to ESC in insert mode inoremap jk Once you've finished what you wanted to insert just hit jk. The combination never occurs in the English language and is right on the home row :)
Thank you for posting this and giving me a reason to reread my all time favorite greentext: https://i.imgur.com/WLzeQMj.png
I know the image post in your comment exaggerates the Emacs input sequence for humorous effect but I got curious and decided to count the actual keystrokes for a real world common use case. Say, we want to replace one string with another, e.g., "foo" with "bar" as it appears in your image post. So assuming that we need simple string replacement, not regex-based replacement, and also assuming that we have vanilla Vim,…
11 keystrokes.
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If you double clutch near redline on your RPMs, you can get marginally faster gear changes with less wear on your synchronizers.
Double clutching is changing into neutral, then into the target gear, right? How could that be faster?
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When you spend hours in your editor, day after day, you aren’t a beginner for long
That’s unfortunately not my experience from observing other engineers. Many get stuck at a “good enough” level with their tools and never seem to learn the shortcuts which would allow them to code and edit faster.
Otoh, then I tried Pycharm community, and eventually redeemed my github student pack for free pro version, and now I can't imagine living without it. Also there's a great plugin that annoys you with small non-modal popup in LB corner whenever you use mouse and reminds you of the correct hotkey
Thank you for posting this and giving me a reason to reread my all time favorite greentext: https://i.imgur.com/WLzeQMj.png
I know the image post in your comment exaggerates the Emacs input sequence for humorous effect but I got curious and decided to count the actual keystrokes for a real world common use case. Say, we want to replace one string with another, e.g., "foo" with "bar" as it appears in your image post. So assuming that we need simple string replacement, not regex-based replacement, and also assuming that we have vanilla Vim,…
+ x + p + r "foo" "bar"
which are 12 keystrokes, if I'm not mistaken, and does more.
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I know the image post in your comment exaggerates the Emacs input sequence for humorous effect but I got curious and decided to count the actual keystrokes for a real world common use case. Say, we want to replace one string with another, e.g., "foo" with "bar" as it appears in your image post. So assuming that we need simple string replacement, not regex-based replacement, and also assuming that we have vanilla Vim,…
Adding further to my previous comment: What if we really need to do regex, say replace "f.." with "bar"? The input sequences then look like this: On Vim: +; (:) +5 (%) s/f../bar/g (16 key strokes) On Emacs: + +, (M- bar +1 (!) (17 key strokes) Although, the number of key strokes are close to each other for both Vim and Emacs, I am pretty sure most beginners would feel there is a slightly increased cognitive overhead…