Re: vim productivity plugin

Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2014 03:53:19 UTC+2 schrieb Tony Mechelynck:
> On 01/07/14 02:04, Felix Dietze wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > is there a plugins that gives you hints on how to improve your vim usage?
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> > If for example I'm pressing "lllll" the plugin would suggest me to make more use of "e,w,E,W".
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> > If I'm pressing "|i" the suggestion would be to use "I" instead.
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> > I'm thinking about writing one, but wanted to check here first if something like this exists already.
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> > Of course any thougts on this are welcome.
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> > Felix
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> Have you run the tutor? If not, do it.

Yes I did. This was actually my starting point. I've been using vim for almost a year now.

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> The idea is to get the right customs into your reflexes rather than pop
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> up annoying messages which get on your nerves and also _worsen_ your
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> productivity every time you don't do "as the master said".
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> Indeed, there are often many ways to obtain a given result in Vim, and
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> usually none of them can be said to be "the best for everyone every
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> time" to the exclusion of all other ways to get the same result.
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> Matter in point: some users will bash you no end for using ←↓↑→ when
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> "the Vim way", they say, means never using them, and always using only
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> hjkl instead. Others say that since Vim supports the arrow keys, you may
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> use them if you want to (and your keyboard provides them). I'm not
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> saying on which side of that fence I stand but maybe you can guess it.
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You are right, such a plugin could get on your nerves when used too often. My motivation came from the fact that I liked when people seeing me editing in vim and gave me hints on how I could do things easier. This is how I found out about the 's' and '.' commands for example.

I personally don't like HJKL, because I'm writing with the NEO Keyboard layout, which has built in arrow keys in the home row already. ;)

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> Best regards,
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> Tony.
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> 123. You ask the car dealer to install an extra cigarette lighter
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