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    Me giving advice about text editors (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    tl;dr: Run vimtutor, learn vim, enjoy life

    It's extremely powerful, for mostly the same reason that it's incomprehensible to newbies. It's focused not on directly inputting characters from your keyboard, but on issuing commands to the editor on how to modify the text.

    These commands are simple but combine to let you do exactly what you want with just a few keypresses.

    For example:

    w is a movement command that moves one word forward.

    You can put a number in front of any command to repeat it that many times, so 3w moves three words forward.

    d is the delete command. You combine it with a movement command that tells it what to delete. So dw deletes one word and d3w deletes the next three words.

    f is the find movement command. You press it and then a character to move to the first instance of that character. So f. will move to the end of the current sentence, where the period is.

    Now, knowing only this, if you wanted to delete the next two sentences, you could do that by pressing d2f.

    Hopefully I gave a taste of how incredibly powerful, flexible, yet simple this system is. You only need to know a handful of commands to use vim more effectively than you ever could most other editors. And there are enough clever features that any time you think "I wish there was a better way to do this" there most certainly is (as well as a nice description of how).

    It also comes with a guide to help you get over the initial learning curve, run vimtutor in a console near you to get started on the path to ~~salvation~~ efficient editing.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    I'm not against that,

    But if ctrl+f doesn't let me type a search term then I'm going to scream

    The war could have been avoided if user had the option to easily rebind any key/action

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    But if ctrl+f doesn't let me type a search term then I'm going to scream

    It's been awhile since I've bothered to remap a key in Vim, but adding this to .vimrc should do it for you:

    nnoremap <C-f> /

    I started with a bunch of these to let me keep using existing muscle memory while training new.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a .vimrc that already maps all the standard notepad++ keybindings in one go ?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Is there a .vimrc that already maps all the standard notepad++ keybindings in one go ?

    You may find someone who has one, but I just did the ones I found myself missing as I encountered them.

    I tried someone's all-in-one .vimrc, but it broke too many community recipes while rebinding a bunch of shortcuts that weren't in my muscle memory anyway.

    I kept adjusting my .vimrc as my muscle memory transitioned. So having less to fiddle also made it easier for me to keep my .vimrc tuned to my muscle memory.

    For example, I was using / instead of Ctrl+F because I liked it better within a month or two.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    There are better editors to learn if your goal is to not learn vi.

    In vi, search is not only used for searching, but also for navigation. Demoting search from an easy-to-reach single key to a difficult-to-press chorded key combination breaks one of vi's core philosophies, natural editing flow, and will significantly reduce your enjoyment and efficiency using the editor.