Re: new vim user

On Tue, May 20, 2014, at 01:13 AM, BPJ wrote:
>
> I also used to have problems with those, until I realized that
> they have or can be thought to have mnemonic names, which may not
> be obvious if English isn't your native language:
>
> Key Mnemonic
>
> |b| |b|eginning of this word
> |B| |B|eginning of a bigger chunk -- B is a big b!
> |e| |e|nd of this word
> |E| |E|nd of a bigger chunk
> |w| |w|hitespace after word included
> |W| |W|hitespace after bigger chunk included
>
> The w and W mnemonics *are* a bit contrieved, but the included
> whitespace is the important difference from e and E, and once I
> came up with them the served me well -- I almost never used w or
> W before that! Now of course I hardly need them anymore.

Please keep using whatever works best for you, but I'd guess most Vim
users think of w as "word," and one way you can think of these are as
jumps. So it's not that "w" in "dw" means "delete this word," what it
means is "delete from here until you run into the next word." In the
same way that "w" without an action before it means "jump to the next
word."

Dan


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