Porn, Zen, and .vimrc

Post by jchook » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 4:00 AM UTC

d10y3vh5 wrote: post #7

> This article describes my Vim journey, starting from heavy personal customization and ending with a renewed love for defaults this exact pattern is found in so many vi|m articles and is touted as a triumph of vim's default patterns, when it is really a failure of vim to support whole ranges of functionality. as a daily user of neovim, i know that vscode is a superior alternative and am waiting for a month off to tr…

Post by Ar-Curunir » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 4:02 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #48

I can't imagine remapping any of the standard commands. What if you have to edit something as a guest on someone else's system? Just get used to it and deal. I've been using it (in "vi" form) daily since 1985 or so and doing any of those remappings would drive me nuts.

Post by Snarwin » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 4:18 AM UTC

curryst wrote: post #49

tadasv wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly! I like being able to log in to any server and use vim/vi without any issues. I've noticed similar pattern with other tools, e.g. git. I've seen coworkers add all kinds off aliases to simplify git commands, and I'm very much against it since I prefer portability.

The portability aspect seems overstated, or perhaps your use cases are just different. I can already log in to any server with my custom configs; Ansible is what configures my user already, so I just have it dump out my configs. If I can access it, it has my configs. Admittedly, it does get annoying when I'm sudo-ed to another user, but it's vanishingly rare for me that I am both sudo-ed to another user, and doing en…

Post by paledot » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 4:29 AM UTC

jhvkjhk wrote: post #46

paledot wrote: post #12

The only map that I would say is an absolute improvement over the default is map ; : Using : is a waste of a keystroke (ie. shift) in an editor that I chose specifically to reduce chorded key combos.

I used to map like this, but then I found ; is to repeat f{char}. How do you repeat f command? Map it to another key? Use / instead?

Post by ryannevius » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 5:13 AM UTC

jhvkjhk wrote: post #46

paledot wrote: post #12

The only map that I would say is an absolute improvement over the default is map ; : Using : is a waste of a keystroke (ie. shift) in an editor that I chose specifically to reduce chorded key combos.

I used to map like this, but then I found ; is to repeat f{char}. How do you repeat f command? Map it to another key? Use / instead?

    nnoremap ; :
    nnoremap : ;