I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
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I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
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Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#2Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.
Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#3Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets. Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.
So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#4Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets. Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it.
> lowercase a whole buffer,
Happens a lot to me actually!
That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#5Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets. Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
While I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vim key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#6Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets. Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it. > lowercase a whole buffer, Happens a lot to me actually! That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
Mind sharing your .vimrc file with the world? Would love to try it.
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it. > lowercase a whole buffer, Happens a lot to me actually! That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
Mind sharing your .vimrc file with the world? Would love to try it.
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#8"The feeling of true Vim fluency—one where every keystroke is exact, I never make mistakes, and I’m exploiting every obscure feature—is a fantasy, at least for me." - that's a wrong mindset. bash that jk hundred times and adapt when it becomes a nuisance
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#9"The feeling of true Vim fluency—one where every keystroke is exact, I never make mistakes, and I’m exploiting every obscure feature—is a fantasy, at least for me." - that's a wrong mindset. bash that jk hundred times and adapt when it becomes a nuisance
> that's a wrong mindset
The very idea there is a 'right mindset' is weird to me.
Re: I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
#10… (For Your Love)” -Frankie Valli