Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.
Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
While I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vim key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way
If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.
So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.
Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it.
> lowercase a whole buffer,
Happens a lot to me actually!
That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
Kudos for reading all those docs and sharing some nuggets.
Does anyone else feel vim clumsy like the author? I'm trying to understand how one could accidentally lowercase a whole buffer, or trigger scary messages or open unrecognized menus. Not condescending, just curious. I find the q: thing relatable, but not the rest.
While I had times discovering myself to accidentally putting 'i' accidentally into MS Word docs and having vim key binding ls in VS Code (and formally eclipse) as well for that reason, I still feel clumsy. I think this is because I mostly rely on muscle memory rather than understanding deeply what I am doing to also allow me to go beyond what I normally do ) which already makes me faster than in any other editor). I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands in a way
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY
If you're at the top of the buffer, guG will lowercase the whole thing.
So if you open a file, go to type G to jump to a line, but accidentally hit g, then try to undo it with u out of habit, before hitting G again, you do the same thing.
Uh to be perfectly honest for the past … 30 years I’ve ran with a buddies vimrc and really never took the time to understand it; it was perfectly good lol and to this day I could not recreate it if I lost it.
> lowercase a whole buffer,
Happens a lot to me actually!
That and accidentally incrementing a numeric value haha..
Mind sharing your .vimrc file with the world? Would love to try it.
https://pastebin.com/YCQmKJRJ