On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Amit Christian
<isong4worship@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 4:08:41 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Sven Guckes <guckes@guckes.net> wrote:
>> > * Amit Christian <isong4worship@gmail.com> [2016-09-13 17:31]:
>> >> I find it still difficult to go to next lines or browsing
>> >> up or down through the text. Can any one please help me
>> >> with efficient use of working with text without a usual
>> >> j,k,h,l use? Are there resources or help on internet?
>> >> What are your strategies to work with text?
>> >
>> > i dont really see a reason not to use hjkl for moving the cursor. ;)
>> > but of course there are many more command for motions/movements.
>> > have you read the text on motions yet? see ":help motion.txt".
>> > sure.. it is 1300+ lines.. but that's how much there is! :-)
>> >
>> > Sven
>> >
>> > --
>> > Vim for Programmers - by Julius Plenz (and Sven Guckes) 2008-09-03
>> > http://www.guckes.net/talks/vim_for_programmers.en.txt 2010-07-16
>> > An overview to the most important commands for programming within C -
>> > and some important options - all in 4000bytes, 68 rows, and 80 columns.
>>
>> Personally I see no reason to restrict oneself to only part of the
>> capabilities of Vim. For moving the cursor, and depending on
>> circumstances, I use h, j, k, l, gj, gk, →, ↓, ↑, ←, <Home>, <End>,
>> Ctrl+←, Ctrl+→, f<character>, t<character>, <LeftMouse>, gg, G, :1234,
>> /pattern, ?pattern, :0/pattern, n, N, and possibly others still.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tony.
>
> Thanks Tony for your comment.
>
> I definitely am not planning to disable those keys forever. But just to learn, develop habit (and possibly muscle memory!) to use other quicker motion keys.
>
> Honestly, from my experience in last few days, I already have become more efficient than my habit of hitting j,k's multiple times to browse/edit code. It has been little frustrating at times, when I felt I can code it much faster with those keys enabled. But I have started to see the benefits.
>
> Thanks.
Rather than hit the same key multiple times, use a count. For
instance, 5j brings you five lines down. Similarly, 3e advances to the
3rd end-of-word from the present position. This, of course, applies to
Normal mode. See ":help i_CTRL-O" about doing one Normal-mode command
from Insert mode (and : is also a Normal-mode command so Ctrl-O also
allows one Ex command).
Then there are searches: / and ? (and n and N) search within the whole
file, or there are f and F (and t and T and , and ;) which search for
one character in the current line and are quite useful in
operator-pending mode: e.g. "cdt. (double-quote little-C-for-Charlie
little-D-for-Delta little-t-for-Tango Dot-for-Decimal) deletes into
register c from the current position forward until, but not including,
the next full stop.
Best regards,
Tony.
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