Re: Good idea to remap s to $?

On Aug 4, 2012 3:43 PM, "Daan" <bakdoa@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It's entirely up to you of course!  I use 's' a lot (particular in the
> > form of e.g. 3s to change three letters).  It has the (significant in
> > my book) advantage over 3xi that if I then use '.' to repeat, it
> > repeats the change, not just the insertion. [...]
>
> s is functionally the same as cl, so you would still be able to perform your command (as 3cl or c3l), albeit at the cost of 1 more keypress than with s.
>
> I understand s is useful, but what I want to find out is whether you advanced vimmers think the benefits of saving the keypress for <shift>4 would outweigh the disadvantages of having to do cl instead of s.
>
> > If you find $ hard to get to, you could always map most
> > of your suggested benefit specifically, e.g.
> >
> >     nmap <Leader>p $p
>
> That's a good point, although it would only work for $p. Don't you think that all the other things you could more easily do, such as [count]$, si, sF and so on be worth it?

Personally, no, but then I use s on a daily basis. To each their own like I said.

Al

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