Re: Need a vim "hard mode" tutorial.

On 13/05/13 10:05, Asis Hallab wrote:
> Dear Vimers,
>
> [...] For me Vim is about doing
> the job of text editing efficiently. So getting to the place you want
> to edit should be fast and easy. In spite of all the different
> available movement commands I frequently find myself thinking, that in
> a particular situation I might had gotten to the place I want to edit
> faster using the mouse. After all searching or jumping to a a line
> number easily require four to five key strokes.

Well, you know what? Vim lets you use your mouse too, at least if it can
get your mouse clicks, and that means in all versions of gvim and in
many versions of Console Vim. Depending on the terminal, you may need to
have the appropriate mouse feature compiled-in, for instance +mouse_gpm
for the Linux text console with the gpm mouse helper running.

Assuming of course that you aren't dead set on using Vim with only the
keyboard.

Of course, moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse and back may
take some time, even more time than moving it to <Esc> and back
(mentioned somewhere else in this post) but not necessarily very much
more than moving from the main part of the keyboard to the numeric
keypad and back. Well, one advantage is that if you see the place where
you want to go, which seems to be, let's say, "between seven and twelve
lines down and between forty and sixty columns right" from where you are
now, going there by mouse requires no complex thinking (which would also
take time).

[...]
>
> Cheers!
>

Best regards,
Tony.
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