Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)

Re:Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) by jstimpfle on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:43PM (#15535771)

Re: scrolling, in vim you have CTRL-E and CTRL-Y and there must be a way to adjust the scroll step (usually 1) to the scroll step of your mouse wheel (usually like 3) is bound. Can a mouse do 30 scrollings per second (my keyboard input rate)?

Where the scroll wheel makes a difference is when you want to fine tune the scrolling speed, which you can't do with a keyboard. I don't think I have a usecase for that (but YMMV), and my impression is it often gets me out of text mode and into FPS mode.

What would be really nice for larger scroll steps (like CTRL-D) is smooth scrolling. I suppose there is no terminal support for this? Also gvim doesn't seem to have it.

Anyway I usually don't scroll by fixed amounts, but do * (identifier search), / (regex search), { and }, and maybe more.

EDIT: just added this to my vimrc. I don't think my mouse scrolling ever was this good

   " Triple scrolling "speed"
   nnoremap <C-e> 3<C-e>
   nnoremap <C-y> 3<C-y>

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Re:Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) by fao_ on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:35AM (#15584865)

you also have ^f ^b (forward, back (by a page)), and ^u ^d (up, down (by half a page)). I honestly prefer scrolling by paragraph though ({ })

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