Saturday, April 9, 2011

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Apr 9, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> Dunno if it suits your learning style, but many years ago I started
> keeping (very brief) notes of the most immediately useful stuff, using
> vim. The act of condensing a concept, and writing it down, together with
> the relevant commands, help with memory. Simply capitalising keywords
> in the file allows rapid access to the desired information, in vim, when
> memory fails. (Might be useful if you're one who learns a good deal more
> than is needed to get by up till lunchtime today.)

It suits my learning style perfectly, Erik. Also goes well with a suggestion made by an earlier respondent: Create your own cheat sheet. Don't use the ready-made ones that are widely available.

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net


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