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Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Re: Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Post by keithnz »

Shared404 wrote: post #42
keithnz wrote: post #31

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seems like it would be awfully slow for any experienced vimmer also. Seems like a really bad idea for a foot pedal / vim integration. A, possibly, much better idea would be if you press the pedal, is turn the hjkl keys into sending actual arrow key keycodes so those annoying times when you need to arrow through OS menus etc you can use your vim instincts. Not that I'd ever want to incorporate a foot pedal myself, but…

> 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…

I remap capslock as escape, using autohotkey, and I game a lot, the dyson sphere program was the first game that actually had a problem, so you can either turn the script off while playing, or make the script smarter to not be active during the game. Having said that, it is worth getting used to Ctrl-[ which is the same thing, and is a standard binding which is useful when you are not on your own machine.

Re: Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Post by xvolter »

Years ago, there was a failed gaming device called a Stinky Board, it's a D-PAD controlled with your feet. I got one at a gaming convention and have never put it to good use. Now I have a reason to pull it out of storage.

Link to unavailable product: https://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Gaming-Footboard-Foot-Controll...

Re: Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Post by andrewzah »

pkulak wrote: post #66
krysp wrote: post #46

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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 :)

That's fun. Does it type the j, then delete it when you press k?

Yes it does. I do the same thing but with jj.

Re: Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Post by stcont »

Slackwise wrote: post #22

This is cool and all, but nearly useless for any experienced vimmer. I almost never press `i` to enter insert mode, and I don't expect most vimmers to do so either. My most common ways to enter insert mode are, off the top of my head... o -- Open new line below current line, enter insert mode. O -- Open new line above current line, enter insert mode. ci( -- Delete all text between the nearest parenthesis and enter in…

To add to this ci works for all sorts of things like [ { There’s also di (delete in) and vi (visual select in) and probably a ton of others that I don’t know about. I’ll never know all of the wonderful ways to use vim

Re: Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

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Post by jsjohnst »

pkulak wrote: post #65
mauvehaus wrote: post #62

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"Granny shifting when you should've been double clutching..."

I still don't understand why you would double clutch a Honda Civic. Especially if you were trying to like, go real fast.

If you double clutch near redline on your RPMs, you can get marginally faster gear changes with less wear on your synchronizers.
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