Re: Need a vim "hard mode" tutorial.

On 13/05/13 14:11, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 13.05.13 05:58, Tim Chase wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I have tried that, particularly in recent times, but my eyesight is not
> what it was when I was younger. I miss too many intervening characters,
> except in the case of ','. Also, as soon as I use a search my bones
> insist that it should work across line boundaries. That t/T/f/F do not
> is so frustrating that I generally use it once or twice in a session,
> then shift to '/', to reduce the swearing.

I notice that I use /? and tTfF for different purposes: To get at the
next "ship" (not "hardship" or "shipping") in the page I'll use
/\<ship\> but to copy to the clipboard from the cursor to just before
the next < on the line I'll use "+yt<

IOW I don't think of tTfF as searches but as (horizontal) moves, similar
to b and e (begin/end of word), 0 and $ (begin/end of line), etc. (And
BTW for purists, I know that the exact converse of $ is not 0 but
<Home>.) It's just that in the case of tTfF the destination of the move
is not hardcoded, it's given as an argument.

>
> Oddly though, I'm increasingly partial to using especially "cf".
>
>> If I miss, it's just a ";" ("not far enough") or "," ("too
>> far") to continue in the corresponding direction.
>
> That would help a lot. I might try changing my habits.
>
>> I use them so often that it baffles me when I see people remap "," to
>> be their map-leader, throwing away such fabulous functionality. :-)

There are really few unused key bindings in Vim. For my own mappings, I
try to err on the side of safety, using only <F2> to <F9>, <F11>, <F12>
and <S-F1> to <S-F12> for [the first key of] the {lhs} unless I
intentionally want to override some known binding. Oh, and also, in
Normal mode, non-ASCII keys like é§èçàùµ² (all of which exist as
unshifted keys on my keyboard) and £ (Shift-µ) or ³ (Shift-²). If
hard-pressed I might think of letters with circumflex or
umlaut/diaeresis (both of which have been present as a dead key,
respectively with and without Shift, on all AZERTY keyboards since the
times of typewriters).

>
> And once we're chained to a mapping by habit, it's hard to change.

:-)

>
> Erik
>

Best regards,
Tony.
--
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. Now, if they'd only
take a bath ...

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