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Re:Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you lea... by Silica6149 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:18AM (#32035330)
It can also be a boon. One of the things some vim users like is always being able to discover something new, after using it for years.

I'm not really in this camp though, I would prefer vim commands to somehow be more "discoverable".

Much easier said than done, though.

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Re:Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you lea... by wruza on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:52PM (#32036950)
What were the last three things that you discovered in your editor?
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Re:Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you lea... by blep_ on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:45PM (#32037535)
In Helix:

- space, k for documentation on the thing under the cursor

- space, [yp] for copying/pasting to the system clipboard

- m, [ai], [acfo] for selecting around/in language structures

This is easy because Helix has a very fast command palette thing, and a lot of its commands are behind consistent prefixes, so if you know `mi(` for selecting within parentheses, you can do `mi` to ask "what other things can I select within?"

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