Re: Need a vim "hard mode" tutorial.

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:58:44AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-05-13 19:21, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > To reach the desired word, I prefer to use 7W or 6B,
> > because the eye does not readily estimate minor word
> > components. Using 0/^ or $ first, allows word count
> > estimation from the nearest end of the line, giving more
> > frequent first-guess hits.

> Sounds like you could benefit from t/T/f/F/,/; which I use ALL THE
> TIME for horizontal navigation. I find it pretty easy to eyeball an
> infrequent letter and then type "2fj" to jump to the 2nd "j" after my
> cursor. If I miss, it's just a ";" ("not far enough") or "," ("too
> far") to continue in the corresponding direction.

> I use them so often that it baffles me when I see people remap "," to
> be their map-leader, throwing away such fabulous functionality. :-)

with a nice fast keyboard repeat rate and a nice short keyboard delay,
I never feel the need to horizontally locate -- consider me a loud and
proud baffling remapper of ',' to mapleader and my fav, ';' to ':'

who wants to count 'j's anyway?

sc

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