Re:Vim 8.1
by smhenderson on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:19PM
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When I got serious about learning Vim and was doing vimtutor I rigged up a piece of cardboard over the numeric keypad, the PgUp, etc keys and the arrow keys so when I tried to use them I couldn't.
It took my brain a while to stop reaching for them but eventually it worked. To this day I naturally shy away from them although I've overcome that somewhat when it comes to using the numeric keypad.
It's kinda of similar to the Right Menu key in Windows. I hit Shift-F10 for so long I never got used to this new key and used it.
It's partly a joke, but it is the "rip off the bandaid" style way to learn Vim. On a system like that you pretty much either learn Vim or perish. I had a Dell laptop like that in grad school which is where I probably used Vim the most consistently I'll ever use it in my life (and used all sorts of other fun key-focused things like xmonad and Vimperator then as well).