> I'm getting a tad fed up with having to press <shift> for colon
> commands.
and Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> my recommendation is to map it and save dozens of shift presses
> throughout the course of any given day
Yes, I do that, I've done it for decades, a real boon. If I'm f-ing and t-ing a lot, and miss the ";" function, I sometimes unmap it, or noremap something else to ";". The worst downside is when running vim without my .vimrc, maybe on a new install, or testing stuff with vim -u NONE.
(The story goes that when Bill Joy wrote the original vi he was using an ADM-3A terminal, which has an unshifted colon. Some claim he was simply reproducing the existing ex prompt, which was a colon, but I say if his colon (the one on his keyboard I mean ;)) had needed shift he would have quickly changed it.)
Regards, John
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