Sunday, January 30, 2011

Re: Typing numbers

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 16:18, adroid28 <d.athinaios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all :)
>
> I am fairly new in vim and also my touch typing is not that great.
> Although I can deal very well with all the vim commands I found my self
> always looking down when I need to write a number argument. I was
> wondering wether there is a way in vim to input numbers without leaving
> the home row. Or is it that with time I will be able to reach the numbers
> row without looking?
>

I took a file to the F, J, 4, 8, F4, and F8 keys on the keyboard to
help find them faster. Then I painted the whole keyboard black!
Although painting may be a bit extreme, I do recommend filing a notch
into the aforementioned keys. Years later and it still saves me
precious seconds tens of times per day.

If you really want to go wild on the keyboard, you can cut the silicon
domes inside to make the keys easier to press. That is the third thing
that I do to any new keyboard now (while the paint on the key caps is
drying, after filing notches).

Keyboard pictures upon request.


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