Re: how to make 'h,j,k,l' faster ?

On Oct 28, 6:16 am, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/11 22:20, gaoqiang wrote:
>
> > I feel those keys  slow. and word-move-keys are a little diffcult to
> > make a accurate move.
>
> While it's a bit of a non-answer, I'd recommend using Vim's many
> other movement keys to move faster and more accurately.  I almost
> NEVER use h/l to move left/right but rather use f/F/t/T/,/; (and
> occasionally in prose, the parens to move by sentence) to move
> horizontally.  For vertical movements, it's usually faster to
> guess roughly and then fine-tune with j/k to move up/down.  This
> can be done with }/{ to jump to blank lines, using "/" to search
> forward, using ]]/[[/]}/]{/[{/[}/[(/]) to jump to code-block
> starts/ends, or using H/M/L to jump to the first/middle/last line
> on the screen.
>
> Also, don't forget that you can prefix a count on each of these
> commands to do it N times (or in the case of H/L, go to the
> Nth-[top|bottom]-line-of-the-screen)
>

I find it very nice to set relative line numbers and use a count with
j/k for down/up movement. One would think you could do the same thing
with absolute line numbers and G, but I always find that to be too
much typing. I usually end up typing "4j" instead of "jjjj" or
"1546G", much faster. And getting in the habit makes it that much
easier to do things like d4j instead of Vjjjjd.

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